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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Mar 4.
Published in final edited form as: Lancet Oncol. 2019 May 28;20(7):915–923. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(19)30308-0

Table 2:

Model input cost parameters

Nominal model
Efficient model
Capital cost of scale-up Operating cost Capital cost of scale-up Operating cost
External-beam radiotherapy
Low-income countries $277·81   $61 $133·86   $29·43
Lower-middle-income countries $277·48   $67 $133·81   $33·29
Upper-middle-income countries $292·14   $90 $142·86   $49·90

Brachytherapy
Low-income countries $461·00 $132 $206·33   $84·33
Lower-middle-income countries $459·67 $179 $233·00 $121·67
Upper-middle-income countries $487·67 $367 $292·00 $271·67

All costs are presented in 2015 US$ per radiation fraction.