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. 2024 Feb 28;18:1675. doi: 10.3332/ecancer.2024.1675

Table 1. Variables and sources included in the cost-effectiveness model.

Variable Value Source
Discount rate 0.03 (0, 0.06) WHO-CHOICE
Haiti life expectancy, year 64 World Bank [11]
Mean age at diagnosis, year 6 Assumption
Duration of disability (length of therapy), year 1 Assumption
Disability weight during therapy 0.288 Murray and Lopez [19]
Utility score at age 24 year using MEPS 0.826 Yeh et al [25]
Utility score at age 35 year using MEPS 0.81 Yeh et al [25]
Utility score at age 45 year using MEPS 0.791 Yeh et al [25]
Number of new incident cases per year 74 Hospital data for year 2017
Proportion of patients with 5-year survival 0.35 Hospital data for year 2017
Haiti GDP per capita, USD $1,479 World Bank [11]

WHO-CHOICE: World Health Organisation Choosing Interventions that are cost-effective; GBD: global burden of disease; MEPS: medical expenditure panel survey; GDP: gross domestic product; USD: United States dollar