• 1. School of Public Health, Fudan University, Shanghai 200032, P. R. China;
  • 2. National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Health Technology Assessment (Fudan University), Shanghai 200032, P. R. China;
CHEN Yingyao, Email: yychen@shmu.edu.cn
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Objective To systematically review the health economic evaluation of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC). Methods The PubMed, Web of Science, EMbase, CNKI, WanFang Data and CBM databases were electronically searched to collect the health economic evaluations on NPC from inception to December 18, 2022. Two reviewers independently screened literature, extracted data and assessed the risk of bias of the included studies. A descriptive analysis was performed. Results A total of 20 studies were included, which contained 14 about different drug combinations, 6 about chemotherapy and the comparison among intensity modulated radiotherapy, conventional radiotherapy and surgery. The results showed that for patients with recurrent, metastatic, or advanced NPC, compared with docetaxel plus cisplatin, fluorouracil plus cisplatin or docetaxel and cisplatin plus fluorouracil, gemcitabine plus cisplatin (GP) was the most economical, and compared with GP or camrelizumab plus GP, toripalimab plus GP (TGP) was more economical. For early-stage NPC, intensity modulated radiotherapy was not economical compared with conventional radiotherapy and surgery. Conclusion Current evidence shows that GP and TGP are economical and can be popularized clinically.

Citation: WENG Junling, LUO Bingxing, XIAO Dunming, CHEN Yingyao. Health economic evaluation in nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a systematic review. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2023, 23(5): 555-560. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.202301057 Copy

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