Lifetime risks, loss of life expectancy, and health care expenditures for 19 types of cancer in Taiwan.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The mortality rates for different cancers are no longer an efficient tool for making national policy. The purpose of this study were to quantify the lifetime risks, life expectancies (LEs) after diagnosis, expected years of life lost (EYLL), and lifetime health care expenditures for 19 major cancers in Taiwan.

Methods

A total of 831,314 patients with 19 pathologically proven cancers were abstracted from the Taiwan Cancer Registry from 1998 to 2012. They were linked to the National Mortality Registry (1998-2014) and National Health Insurance reimbursement database (1998-2013) for survival and health care costs. We estimated the cumulative incidence rate for ages 0-79 years and the lifetime survival function for patients with different cancer sites. The EYLL was cal

SUBMITTER: Wu TY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5973634 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature