The Cost of Melanoma and Kidney, Prostate, and Ovarian Cancers in Russia

Abstract

The economic impact of cancers is more prominent during the first year after diagnosis. A considerable part of the economic burden of cancer lies outside the health sector.

The economic burden of disease of epithelial ovarian cancer in Spain: the OvarCost study

“…EOC has a major impact on patients’ quality of life and implies an important economic burden for healthcare services, patients, and society in general, for several reasons. These patients are treated with a large and growing amount of healthcare resources such as hospitalizations, medical appointments, and chemotherapy treatments administrated in day hospital units, since they are diagnosed [10, 11]. Administration is usually expensive, not only because of medical resource consumption, but also because it requires time expenditure from experienced nurses on day hospital units [9, 12, 13].…”

What Are the Challenges in Conducting Cost-of-Illness Studies?

“…Several articles in this volume report on COI studies for various health conditions. Two of the studies are population based [4,5], providing the first information on the economic burden of substance abuse and several types of cancers in the Russian Federation. Other studies estimated the COI in a sample of patients with rheumatoid arthritis and its relation to disease severity [6]; the cost related to work productivity of patients with ankylosing spondylitis, rheumatoid arthritis, and psoriasis in the Czech Republic [7]; the direct cost of HIV-infected patients in Greece [8]; and a single-center study from Ghana assessing the health facility cost of Buruli ulcer wound infection [9].…”

“…Although very appealing, using the FCM requires a tremendous amount of information that is both not available and may change over time because the friction time is heavily dependent, for example, on the unemployment rate in the country. Indeed, Ignatyeva et al [5] in their assessment of the cost of selected cancers in Russia suggest that because accurate data on the length of friction period were not available, they had to rely on experts' opinion in their calculations. 2) Should analyses include losses due to absenteeism or also due to presenteeism?…”