Abstract:Background: There is a paucity of research on the cost of breast cancer (BC) treatment from the patient’s perspective in Vietnam.Methods: Individual-level data about out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures on use of services were collected from women treated for BC (n=202) using an online survey and a face-to-face interview at two tertiary hospitals in 2019. Total expenditures on diagnosis and initial BC treatment were presented in terms of the mean, standard deviation, and range for each type of service use. A gener… Show more
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