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. 2015 May 14;46(3):201–211. doi: 10.1007/s12029-015-9724-1

Table 6.

Aggregate life-years and QALYs lost to pancreatic cancer across Europe (EU 28)

Incident casesa Aggregate life-years lost Aggregate QALYs lost
All pancreatic cancer
 Globocan (crude) 79,331 1,167,488 914,594
 Systematic review (crude) 62,203 915,428 717,134
 Systematic review (ESP) 52,872 778,095 609,549
Metastatic pancreatic cancer
 Globocan (crude) 44,901 663,792 519,606
 Systematic review (crude) 35,207 520,479 407,423
 Systematic review (ESP) 29,925 442,397 346,301

ESP age adjusted with European Standard Population

aMetastatic incident cases based on 62.5 % of patients in Stages IV, a figure scaled up from that in the original publication in order that proportions of patients in the study in Stages I to IV sum to 100 % [15]