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What affects the public healthcare costs of breast cancer in New Zealand?

Chunhuan Lao, Mohana Mondal, Marion Kuper-Hommel, et al. Asia Pac J Clin Oncol. 2023 Aug;19(4):482-492

This study aims to identify the factors that affect the public healthcare costs of stage I-III breast cancer and stage IV cancer in New Zealand. We identified 16,977 stage I-III and 1,093 stage IV breast cancer patients eligible f... Read More

Global treatment costs of breast cancer by stage: A systematic review

Li Sun, Rosa Legood, Isabel Dos-Santos-Silva, et al. PLoS One. 2018 Nov 26;13(11):e0207993

This study aimed to conduct a systematic review to compare treatment costs of breast cancer by stage at diagnosis across countries at different levels of socio-economic development, and to identify key methodological differences i... Read More

Results from a prospective longitudinal survey of employment and work outcomes in newly diagnosed cancer patients during and after curative-intent chemotherapy: A Wisconsin Oncology Network study

Amye J Tevaarwerk, Kris Kwekkeboom, Kevin A Buhr, et al. Cancer. 2021 Mar 1;127(5):801-808

Post cancer work limitations may affect a substantial proportion of patients and contribute to the "financial toxicity" of cancer treatment. The degree and nature of work limitations and employment outcomes are poorly understood f... Read More

De-escalated neoadjuvant weekly nab-paclitaxel with trastuzumab and pertuzumab versus docetaxel, carboplatin, trastuzumab, and pertuzumab in patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer (HELEN-006): a multicentre, randomised, phase 3 trial

Xiu-Chun Chen, De-Chuang Jiao, Jiang-Hua Qiao, et al. Lancet Oncol. 2025 Jan;26(1):27-36

We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of weekly nab-paclitaxel compared with the standard regimen of docetaxel plus carboplatin, both with trastuzumab and pertuzumab, as neoadjuvant therapies for patients with HER2-positive breast can... Read More