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Assessing the Economic Value of Anticancer Therapies

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. Niels Neymark

    1. EORTC Health Economics Unit, Brussels, Belgium

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Part of the book series: Recent Results in Cancer Research (RECENTCANCER, volume 148)

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Table of contents (15 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Introduction

    • Niels Neymark
    Pages 1-8

  3. Epidemiology of Cancer

    • Niels Neymark
    Pages 9-14

  4. Cancer and Some Basics of the Main Treatment Modalities

    • Niels Neymark
    Pages 15-27

  5. A Brief Introduction to Economic Evaluation

    • Niels Neymark
    Pages 28-41

  6. The Economic Burden of Cancer

    • Niels Neymark
    Pages 42-53

  7. Breast Cancer

    • Niels Neymark
    Pages 54-78

  8. Lung Cancer

    • Niels Neymark
    Pages 79-96

  9. Colorectal Cancer

    • Niels Neymark
    Pages 97-113

  10. Prostate Cancer

    • Niels Neymark
    Pages 114-132

  11. Genitourinary and Gynecological Cancer

    • Niels Neymark
    Pages 133-155

  12. Hematological Malignancies

    • Niels Neymark
    Pages 156-182

  13. Supportive Care I: Emesis and Infections

    • Niels Neymark
    Pages 183-210

  14. Supportive Care II: Hematological Support

    • Niels Neymark
    Pages 211-247

  15. Palliative Care

    • Niels Neymark
    Pages 248-262

  16. Conclusion

    • Niels Neymark
    Pages 263-275

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 277-285
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About this book

With ever increasing demands on the constrained resources available for health care services, no one involved in decision making in health care can continue to ignore the economic costs of the services provided or the relative value for money offered by the available treatments. Economic evaluation has therefore become an important and indispensable tool for medical deciยญ sion making, alongside the well-known methods for clinical evalยญ uation. This is also true for cancer, despite the aura of sanctity often of surrounding this dreaded disease and the apparent willingness the general population to spend large sums in this area and do "everything possible" for the patients. In recent years, articles dealing with assessing the costs and benefits of various cancer treatments have begun to appear in scientific medical and ecoยญ nomic journals. This book provides a comprehensive survey and assessment of the current state of the art of economic evaluations and cost anaยญ lyses in cancer. It gives an introduction to the methods available for economic evaluations, before surveying and assessing the available publications. Separate chapters are devoted to the most prevalent cancers, and in each chapter the current clinical pracยญ tice and research problems are summarized in order to provide a background for the economic analyses. At the end, a summary assessment of the literature is provided along with some suggesยญ tions for a future research agenda.

Authors and Affiliations

  • EORTC Health Economics Unit, Brussels, Belgium

    Niels Neymark

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Assessing the Economic Value of Anticancer Therapies

  • Authors: Niels Neymark

  • Series Title: Recent Results in Cancer Research

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72123-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin ยท Heidelberg 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-72125-0Published: 10 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-72123-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0080-0015

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-6767

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 228

  • Number of Illustrations: 40 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Oncology

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