Initial Treatment of Prostate Cancer in Medicare Moving Toward High-Cost TechnologiesWayne Kuznar
It can be used to treat many types of cancer, including breast, lung, colorectal, prostate and brain cancers. Treatment typically is done five days a week for less than an hour, and can take a total of two to nine weeks. Brachytherapy[8] , also called internal radiation therapy, ...
Discover the high costs involved in cancer treatment such as chemotherapy & other treatments. Explore the challenges of patients & families.
Costs of radiation treatment for breast, lung, and prostate cancer patients vary greatly based on reasons not connected to patient characteristics, suggesting broad inefficiency in Medicare payment expenditures, a team of researchers from University of California, San Diego School of Medicine reported in...
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Total Medicare costs associated with diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer in elderly men. JAMA Oncol. 2019;5(1):60-66. doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2018.3701 ArticlePubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 5. Pahwa S, Schiltz NK, Ponsky LE, Lu Z, Griswold MA, Gulani V...
OBJECTIVE: To compare the cost and resource utilization in the evaluation, treatment, and 6-month follow-up of African-American and White men undergoing either external beam radiation therapy (XRT) or radical prostatectomy (RP) for early-stage prostate cancer. DESIGN: Retrospective analysis of cost...
There is a dramatic revolution under way in the treatment of advanced-stage prostate cancer, which for many years consisted of systemic chemotherapy that offered only palliation of symptoms and no hope of improved survival. The last decade has witnessed the debut of a completely new arsenal of ...
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Background The impact of National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) treatment guideline concordance on costs, health care utilization, and mortality for patients with breast cancer and secondary metastases is unknown. Methods From 2007 to 2013, women with early‐stage breast cancer who received treat...