Lifetime costs of the top five cancers in Taiwan

European Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 347-353

  Lang, Hui Chu ^a   Wu, Shi Liang ^b  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cost; Incidence based; Lifetime cost; Long term cost

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURVIVAL; CANCER SURVIVOR; COLORECTAL CANCER; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LIVER CANCER; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TAIWAN; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER;

ALGORITHMS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; TAIWAN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84861195592     PISSN: 16187598     EISSN: 16187601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10198-011-0307-1     Document Type: Article

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