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Figure 2 | Radiation Oncology

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From: Cost of palliative radiation to the bone for patients with bone metastases secondary to breast or prostate cancer

Figure 2

Main analysis of healthcare costs ($) per REOC. *Radiation-related procedures were visits and procedures at radiation center excluding actual administration of radiation. Radiation-related procedures included intensity-modulated treatment delivery, single or multiple fields/arcs, via narrow spatially and temporally modulated beams, binary, dynamic multileaf collimator, per treatment session (Current ProceduralTerminology/Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System[CPT/HCPCS] code 77418); treatment devices, design and construction, complex (CPT/HCPCS code 77334); therapeutic radiology simulation-aided field setting, 3-dimensional (CPT/HCPCS code 77295); therapeutic radiology simulation-aided field setting, simple (CPT/HCPCS code 77280); special dosimetry, only when prescribed by the treating physician (CPT/HCPCS code 77331). †Excluded records with unpopulated costs.

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Radiation Oncology

ISSN: 1748-717X

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