Trends in use and cost of initial cancer treatment in Ontario: a population-based descriptive study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Cancer incidence and treatment-related costs are rising in Canada. We estimated health care use and costs in the first year after diagnosis for patients with 7 common types of cancer in Ontario to examine temporal trends in patterns of care and costs.

Methods

We selected patients aged 19-44 years who had received a diagnosis of melanoma, breast cancer (female only), testicular cancer or thyroid cancer, in addition to patients aged 45 years and older who had received a diagnosis of breast (female only), prostate, lung or colorectal cancer, between 1997 and 2007. Patients were identified from the Ontario Cancer Registry. Using linked administrative databases, we determined use and costs of chemotherapy, radiotherapy, cancer-related surgery, other admissions to hospi

SUBMITTER: de Oliveira C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3986020 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature