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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Surg. 2019 Aug 1;229(5):449–457. doi: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2019.07.010

Table 5.

Cost Model Results for a Five-Year Surveillance Period for High-Grade Soft Tissue Sarcoma

Surveillance protocol Low frequency surveillance High frequency surveillance
Chest x-ray, $, mean ± SD 2,333,224 ± 32,057.71 2,985,268 ± 33,626.64
CT, $, mean ± SD 7,858,637 ± 62,783.94 10,839,000 ± 77,141.49
Savings, $ 5,525,413 7,853,732