For lung cancer in particular, treatment[4] typically involves one or more of the following options, alone or in combination: surgery which can cost[5]$15,000or more;chemotherapy, which can cost$10,000 -$200,000or more;radiation therapy, which can cost$10,000-$50,000or more; and/or ...
Among Stage I lobectomy patients, those selected for minimally invasive surgery had lower costs, particularly through 90 days. Potential avenues for improving the value of surgical resection include judicious use of post-operative intensive care and earlier detection and treatment of disease....
including the cost of the initial screening for insured and uninsured individuals, the downstream cost incurred from positive scans, and the cost of biopsy or surgery as part of confirming the presence or absence of cancer. The major economic impact...
Discover the high costs involved in cancer treatment such as chemotherapy & other treatments. Explore the challenges of patients & families.
In lung cancer, there is a significant incidence of bone metastases with skeletal complications affecting more than 50% of patients. The systematic detection of bone metastases should be included in the initial staging of lung cancer in order to begin their management at an early stage. Treatment...
Many patients are active smokers at the time of a diagnosis of surgically resectable lung cancer. Perioperative smoking cessation is associated with improved survival, but the cost-effectiveness of a smoking cessation program initiated immediately before surgery is unknown. We developed a decision analyti...
Cost effectiveness of lung-volume-reduction surgery for patients with severe emphysema. Special Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — Cost Effectiveness of Lung-Volume–Reduction Surgery for Patients with Severe Emphysema None - 《New England Journal of Medicine》 被引量: 475发表: 2004...
population and to identify characteristics of lung cancer screening programs (i.e., screen frequency and adherence, eligibility, follow-up program, effects on cessation, and costs) with the largest influences on the cost-effectiveness of screening. We compared smoking cessation therapies with screening...
A cost-effectiveness analysis of prophylactic surgery versus gynecologic surveillance for women from hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) Fam... Women at risk for Lynch Syndrome/HNPCC have an increased lifetime risk of endometrial and ovarian cancer. This study investigates the cost-effect...
Reich's hypothesis would be cause for amusement if not for the cost. We refer not to the $200 million price tag of the NCI's National Lung Screen Trial, but to the unnecessary suffering and death of thousands of individuals from lung cancer who might have been salvaged by screening, betwe...