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Economics of Cancer Care

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Gary H. Lyman, MD

The impact of cancer and cancer treatment on health care costs has increasingly gained the attention of providers and payers as well as patients and their families. Health care costs include the direct costs of receiving medical care and the nonmedical costs incurred while receiving care such as transportation or childcare expenses. In addition, there are indirect costs associated with the morbidity of cancer care such as days lost from work for the patient or caregiver. Intangible costs such as pain and suffering and loss of companionship are difficult to measure but very real to the . . . [Click for More]