The Long-Term Cost of Surviving Cancer
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Economics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 June 2023) | Viewed by 5442
Special Issue Editor
Interests: cancer survivorship; cancer prevention; economic evaluations; decision-analytic modelling; cost analyses; financial toxicity
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Dear Colleagues,
Ever-increasing advances and innovations in cancer research continue to provide new technologies for early detection, personalized treatment and survivorship care to improve patients’ quality and quantity of life. An estimated 19.3 million new cases of cancer were diagnosed globally in 2020, with a 5-year relative survival rate of 69% for all cancers combined [NCCI]. Many of these cancer survivors (people with a history of cancer) require continuing medical care due to chronic health conditions and late adverse effects which has a significant impact on all levels of society, including individuals and their families, communities, health care providers and governments. Long-term outcomes of cancer survivors after the initial treatment finishes are under-researched, and the direct (e.g., economic impact) and indirect costs (e.g., quality of life) are uncertain. Health economics research is the ideal platform to evaluate the long-term costs of cancer survivors, from the patient, health care and societal perspectives, to aid decision making, optimize care and use scarce health care resources responsibly.
For this Special Issue titled “The Long-term Cost of Surviving Cancer (≥2yrs)”, we would like to invite high-quality research on topics such as:
- Financial burden for patients, their families and their carers;
- Quality of life of survivors over time;
- Health system costs and health services use;
- Innovative long-term care models;
- Economic impact of support services and programs;
- Productivity and employment;
- Economic evaluations, cost analyses, cost-effectiveness studies, economic modelling;
- Research focused on specific age groups (childhood, adolescent and young adult, adult and/or elderly survivors);
- Literature reviews.
Dr. Katharina Merollini
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cancer
- survivorship
- economic evaluations
- cost analysis
- cost effectiveness
- economic burden
- patient outcomes
- financial toxicity
- health services research
- quality of life
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