Cost of treatment for breast cancer in central Vietnam

Global Health Action

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Lan, Nguyen Hoang ^a,b   Laohasiriwong, Wongsa ^a   Stewart, John Frederick ^c   Tung, Nguyen Dinh ^d   Coyte, Peter C ^e  

^a KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^b HUE UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d Hue Central Hospital   (Viet Nam)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Direct medical cost; Health care payer; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; BREAST TUMOR; COST OF ILLNESS; DIRECT MEDICAL COST; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PAYER; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; VIET NAM;

BREAST CANCER; DIRECT MEDICAL COST; HEALTH CARE PAYER; VIETNAM;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH POLICY; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VIETNAM;

EID: 84877149615     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v6i0.18872     Document Type: Article

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