Cost-utility analysis of proton beam therapy for locally advanced esophageal cancer in Japan

• Takuya Sawada,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology & Proton Medical Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7670-6629

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• Masahide Kondo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mkondo@md.tsukuba.ac.jp

  Affiliation Department of Health Care Policy and Health Economics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6021-4375

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• Masaaki Goto,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology & Proton Medical Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Department of Radiation Oncology, Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan

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• Motohiro Murakami,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology & Proton Medical Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Toshiki Ishida,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology & Proton Medical Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Yuichi Hiroshima,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology & Proton Medical Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Department of Radiation Oncology, Ibaraki Prefectural Central Hospital, Kasama, Ibaraki, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4040-0127

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• Shu-Ling Hoshi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Care Policy and Health Economics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Reiko Okubo,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Health Care Policy and Health Economics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Department of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, University of Tsukuba Hospital, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Toshiyuki Okumura,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Radiation Oncology & Proton Medical Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan, Department of Radiation Oncology, Ibaraki Prefectural Central Hospital, Kasama, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Hideyuki Sakurai

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiation Oncology & Proton Medical Research Center, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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