Significantly increased medical expenditure on breast cancer failing to bring down its mortality and incidence rate

Journal of Cancer

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 531-535

  Ho, Ming Lin ^a,b   Liaw, Yung Po ^a   Lai, Chien Hsu ^b   Chen, Yen Yu ^b   Tsai, Yen Yu ^b   Chou, Ming Chih ^a,c   Hsiao, Yi Hsuan ^a,b  

^a CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHANGHUA CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Incidence; Medical expense; Taiwan.

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; ICD-9; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; TAIWAN;

EID: 84882987369     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18379664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7150/jca.6211     Document Type: Article

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