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Total Costs of Modern Treatment of Disseminated Breast Cancer Grows
Cost of Breast Cancer Treatment Grows
B. Jancin
20080007
2008 Jan 7
Elsevier Global Medical News
Total Costs of Modern Treatment of Disseminated Breast Cancer Grows
Elsevier Global Medical News. 2008 Jan 7, B. Jancin
SAN ANTONIO (EGMN) - Total health care costs for contemporary treatment of disseminated breast cancer are three to nine times higher than in prior analyses based upon older therapies, according to a retrospective cohort study.The study, reported by Dr. Henrik Lindman at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, involved all 53 women who died of breast cancer in Uppsala County, Sweden during 2005-2006, and the investigators concluded that the mean total health care cost of disseminated disease from...