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- Title
Economic Impact of Early Detection and Treatment of Skin Cancer on the Health Care System.
- Authors
Raducu, Laura; Sinescu, Diana Ruxandra; Cozma, Cristina Nicoleta; Filip, Iulia Cristina; Jecan, Cristian Radu
- Abstract
Skin cancer have an increasing incidence and high costs for the public health care system. The objectives proposed for fulfilling the research study goals are: evaluation of management for patients with skin cancer, identifying personal characteristics of patients with skin cancer, elaboration of an algorithm to determine a good control of the disease in the long term, estimation of skin cancer treatment costs. The study comprises a total of 263 patients who benefited of surgical excision followed by a reconstructive procedure and other associated treatments based on histopathological diagnosis. Taking into account costs per treated case and the annual number of new cases we calculated the costs per each year included in the study and based on the incidence trend we estimated the costs involved till 2020. We concluded that early diagnosis programs with development of practice guidelines for treatment have strong potential for health and economic benefits.
- Subjects
SKIN cancer; SKIN diseases
- Publication
Medicina Moderna, 2015, Vol 22, Issue 4, p309
- ISSN
1223-0472
- Publication type
Article