Economic evaluations of adjunctive osimertinib treatment in surgically resected epidermal growth factor receptor positive (EGFR+) non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC): Analysis for stage 1B disease.

Authors

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Briana M Choi

University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, Tucson, AZ

Briana M Choi , Rachel B Abraham , Osama Aqel , Uche S Agu , Kristen C. Gregory , Mavis Obeng-Kusi , Matthias Calamia , Hala Halawah , Deniz Tugay , Ahmad Alamer , Ali McBride , Ivo Abraham

Organizations

University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, Tucson, AZ, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, Center for Health Outcomes and PharmacoEconomic Research, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, Center for Health Outcomes and Pharmacoeconomic Research, and Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science, Tucson, AZ, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands, Al-Zaytoonah University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan, Bilkent Şehir Hastanesi, Ankara, Turkey

Research Funding

No funding received

Background: Patients with stage 1B non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who receive surgical resection are at continued risk of disease recurrence and death after the surgery. Osimertinib, a tyrosine kinase inhibitor indicated for epidermal growth factor receptor positive (EGFR+) NSCLC, has been used post-operatively as adjunctive therapy to improve clinical outcomes in surgically resected EGFR+ stage 1B NSCLC. We evaluated the cost effectiveness/utility of adjunctive osimertinib treatment post-surgically in stage 1B. Methods: A two state partitioned survival model with disease free survival (DFS) and disease recurrence or death was specified (US payer perspective). Kaplan-Meier DFS curves were fitted to parametric functions. A 5 year time horizon was adopted and a 3% discount rate was applied to costs and utilities after year 1. Wholesale acquisition costs for treatments were sourced from Redbook, adverse event costs (grade 3/4; all grades for immunotherapy related AEs) utilized published data, and monitoring costs were based on Physician Fee Schedules (US $2021). We estimated incremental costs, DFS life years (DFSLY), and DFS quality adjusted life years (DFSQALY). Based on DFSLY and DFSQALY gained (g), incremental cost effectiveness/utility ratios (ICER/ICUR) were determined in base case analyses (BCA) and probabilistic sensitivity analyses (PSA). Results: Exponential regression was utilized to extrapolate the osimertinib DFS Kaplan-Meier curve, while Weibull regression was applied for extrapolation of the placebo DFS curve. Shown in the table below, the BCA (PSA) revealed incremental cost of $774,710 ($775,941) and ncremental DFSLY of 0.813 (0.954), yielding an ICER of $952,797/DFSLYg ($813,162/DFSLYg); and incremental DFSQALY of 0.576 (0.676), yielding an ICUR of $1,345,340/DFSQALYg (1,147,793/DFSQALYg). Conclusions: In surgically resected stage 1B EGFR+ NSCLC, the model estimated incremental benefits of 0.813 (0.954) LYg and 0.576 (0.676) QALYg, however at marked incremental cost. As adjunctive osimertinib treatment is indicated in EGFR+ NSCLC disease stages 2 and 3A, the present stage 1B cost effectiveness/utility results should be compared to those for stages 2 and 3A.

Stage 1B EGFR+ NSCLC BCA (PSA).


Placebo
Osimertinib
Difference
Cost
$23,813

($23,141)
$799,523

($799,072)
$774,710

($775,941)
DFS LY
3.256

(3.118)
4.069

(4.072)
0.813

(0.954)
DFS QALY
2.311

(2.213)
2.887

(2.889)
0.576

(0.676)



Economic evaluation results
ICER

$952,797 / DFSLYg

($813,162 / DFSLYg)
ICUR

$1,345,340 / DFSQALYg

($1,147,793 / DFSQALYg)

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Abstract Details

Meeting

2022 ASCO Annual Meeting

Session Type

Publication Only

Session Title

Lung Cancer—Non-Small Cell Local-Regional/Small Cell/Other Thoracic Cancers

Track

Lung Cancer

Sub Track

Adjuvant Therapy

Citation

J Clin Oncol 40, 2022 (suppl 16; abstr e20502)

DOI

10.1200/JCO.2022.40.16_suppl.e20502

Abstract #

e20502

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