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Table 10 Cost parameters: distant metastases (treatment)

From: Adjuvant treatment of high-risk melanoma – cost-effectiveness analysis of treatment options for BRAF 600 mutated tumors

 

Annual costs

Share of patients

Duration

 

Advanced melanoma treatment: immuno-suppressant drugs

108,192 €

85%

1 year

 

 Dabrafenib + Trametinib

114,411 €

12%

 

Quelle: Dossier [81], price adjustment 2019/20

 Ipilimumab

91,788 €

23%

Dossier Ipilimumab, advanced melanoma [85]

 Nivolumab

78,460 €

6%

Dossier Nivolumab [82]

 Pembrolizumab

130,858 €

13%

Dossier Pembrolizumab, Advanced Melanoma [86] Assumption: 60% men, 40% women

 Vemurafenib

93,108 €

1%

Dossier Cobimetinmib 2015, advanced melanoma [87]; Vemurafenib as comparator

 Nivolumab + Ipilimumab

139,958 €

8%

Dossier Nivolumab+Ipilimumab, advanced melanoma [88]

 Vemurafenib + Cobimetinib

90,637 €

3%

Dossier Vemurafenib+Cobimetinib, advanced melanoma [87]

Chemotherapy

9194 €

5%

unlimited

Dacarbazin treatment (used in dossier [89] as comparator for Nivolumab+Ipilimumab, mean of therapy frequencies (1 × 17, 5 × 17)

Surgery

3000 €

20%

 

Assumption (standard inpatient flat rate per case in Germany)

Radiotherapy

4776 €

5%

1 year

KBV statistic 2012, following [90], S, 9

“Best supportive care”

17,531 €

5%

unlimited

Schmidt/Lipp/Drechsler, ISPOR 2014, poster PCN86 [58]

Frequency of immunosuppressant therapy: Gerbasi [40]

Frequency of therapies in general: assumption following Maio et.al, [57]

2nd line treatment

17,531 €

 

Best supportive care, see above [58]

  1. KBV Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung (National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians)