Cost-effectiveness of maintenance therapy in advanced ovarian cancer: Paclitaxel, bevacizumab, niraparib, rucaparib, olaparib, and pembrolizumab.

Authors

null

Juliet Elizabeth Wolford

University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA

Juliet Elizabeth Wolford , Jiaru Bai , Lindsey E. Minion , Robin Keller , Ramez Nassef Eskander , John K. Chan , Bradley J. Monk , Krishnansu Sujata Tewari

Organizations

University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA, School of Management, Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, University of California Irvine Paul Merage School of Business, Irvine, CA, UCSD Moores Cancer Center, La Jolla, CA, Palo Alto Medical Foundation, San Francisco, CA, University of Arizona Cancer Center at Dignity Health St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ, The Division of Gynecologic Oncology at the University of California, Irvine, Orange, CA

Research Funding

Other

Background: Acquired drug resistance remains the greatest clinical hurdle in advanced ovarian cancer suggesting that effective maintenance therapies are lacking. We evaluated cost-effectiveness of available strategies, adjusting for pre-treatment medication costs, infusion center charges, and costs of managing adverse events. Methods: Registration trial data was used to obtain toxicity and median PFS for a) paclitaxel (GOG 212); b) bevacizumab (GOG 218, ICON 7, OCEANS, GOG 213); c) niraparib (NOVA), olaparib (SOLO-2), rucaparib (ARIEL-3); and d) pembrolizumab. Because anti-angiogenesis therapy was studied in different populations, each trial was modeled separately. As phase III randomized trials involving checkpoint inhibition in ovarian cancer are not mature, data for pembrolizumab (available via agnostic indication) were obtained from the phase IB ovarian cohort of KEYNOTE-028. Costs of germline/somatic BRCA testing and those associated with management of neuropathy and immune-mediated adverse events, including endocrinopathies, also factored into the model. Utilizing a Markov chain, patients transitioned through response, hematological and non-hematological complications, progression, and death. Using Medicare data, the costs of infusions and managing toxicities were estimated. Incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICER) and quality of adjusted life-months gained were determined for each therapy. Results: Maintenance paclitaxel was most cost-effective at $870/PFS month. Expected costs of PARP inhibitors (PARPi(s)) prior to progression were approx. $471,989 (18.8x paclitaxel, 6.9x pembrolizumab, and 2.2-2.7x bevacizumab). Comparing pembrolizumab to PARPi(s) in BRCA-deficient patients, anti-PD-1 maintenance yielded ICERs per month of life gained of $20,032 (niraparib), $18,444 (rucaparib), and $17,520 (olaparib). Conclusions: Using PFS as the benchmark, high costs of maintenance PARPi(s)/immunotherapy are not mitigated by adjusting for the sequelae that may manifest with maintenance chemotherapy/VEGF inhibition. In terms of economic toxicity, the current trend to study novel combinations is problematic.

Disclaimer

This material on this page is ©2024 American Society of Clinical Oncology, all rights reserved. Licensing available upon request. For more information, please contact licensing@asco.org

Abstract Details

Meeting

2018 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Oral Abstract Session

Session Title

Gynecologic Cancer

Track

Gynecologic Cancer

Sub Track

Ovarian Cancer

Citation

J Clin Oncol 36, 2018 (suppl; abstr 5508)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2018.36.15_suppl.5508

Abstract #

5508

Abstract Disclosures

Similar Abstracts