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Article History

Received: 13 September 2025

Accepted: 29 January 2026

First Online: 25 February 2026

Declarations

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: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

: Not applicable.

: All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this published article and the datasets used and/or analysed during the current study are publicly available from source.

: The Microsoft Excel-based Partitioned Survival Model and associated calculation code used in this study are available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

: All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. The study was a retrospective data review and there was no enrolment of human subjects, hence no informed consent was necessary.

: All authors contributed to the study conception. RW was responsible for the study design, development of the economic model, data analysis and interpretation, and drafting of this article. ES contributed to the revision of the manuscript and data interpretation. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.