Table 2.

Summary statistics of 7-month treatment costs in the study population

Treatment arms	Stage IIIC ovarian cancer						Kruskal–Wallis test P-value	Stage IV ovarian cancer						Kruskal–Wallis test P-value
	7-month total cost of care (in 2010 US$)a							7-month total cost of care (in 2010 US$)a
	n	Median	Mean	Minimum	Maximum	SD		n	Median	Mean	Minimum	Maximum	SD
Treatment arm							0.2367							0.0299
PDSb	2,162	59,805	68,811	14,566	583,672	41,383		1,560	63,067	71,695	8,086	740,258	41,880
NACTb	369	62,565	67,867	4,463	252,528	31,313		427	60,442	64,813	3,237	200,885	30,898

Notes:

^a7-month total cost = Medicare payments for inpatient, outpatient, physician claims, durable medical equipment, home health, and hospice claims within 7 months after diagnosis and adjusted for inflation;

^bn=12 had missing information. Data represent all claims.

Abbreviations: NACT, neoadjuvant chemotherapy; PDS, primary debulking surgery; SD, standard deviation.