S. Ogino and T. Ugai. Annals of Oncol;.35(12) 1071-1073. 2024
The incidence of early-onset cancer (EOC) diagnosed in individuals under the age of 50 has been increasing worldwide, which may be just the tip of the iceberg of larger emerging issues, including the rise of various chronic diseas...
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In recent years, the incidence of early-onset cancers among individuals under 50 years of age has been on the rise. From 1990 to 2021, the incidence rate of all early-onset cancers in China increased by 150.72 per 100,000, while t...
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Elyesa Ünal, Elena Goodchild, Volker Winkler, et al. Arch Public Health. 2025 Oct 13;83(1):243
Lung Cancer is one of the four most frequent malignant neoplasms in the world, and first in mortality. In 2020, lung cancer resulted in roughly 1.8 million deaths globally. Lung cancer is a major public health problem in low and l...
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Stephen Lam,David R. Baldwin, Anand Devaraj, et al. Journal of Thoracic Oncology Vol. 21 No. 2: 235–252
In the past two decades, lung cancer screening (LCS) with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) has emerged as one of the most effective strategies for reducing lung cancer mortality. Landmark trials, including NLST and NELSON, demo...
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Chi M Nguyen, Paul G Yeh, Mai P Nguyen, et al. Cancer Res Commun. 2025 Oct 1;5(10):1852-1864
Colorectal cancer is a leading cause of cancer-related death and among the costliest cancers to treat in the United States. This study highlights the substantial economic burden of mCRC, with medical and prescription costs nearly...
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Kevin Chiu, Joanna P MacEwan, Suepattra G May, et al. MDM Policy Pract. 2022 Aug 3;7(2)
Cancer can have a profound impact on productivity. Traditional approaches to capturing health-related productivity loss focus only on the foregone wages of affected patients, overlooking the losses caregivers can incur. This study...
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Ana N Ehsan, Catherine A Wu, Alexandra Minasian, et al. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Feb 1;6(2):e2255388
Financial toxicity (FT) is the negative impact of cost of care on financial well-being. Patients with breast cancer are at risk for incurring high out-of-pocket costs given the long-term need for multidisciplinary care and expensi...
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Cancer imposes a substantial economic burden on patients that may be worse in patients with higher-stage disease due to the need for more therapy. The cohort consisted of 46,158 patients (mean age at diagnosis, 46 years; 30,...
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Ziting Wu , Yiwen Yu, Feng Xie, et al. BMC Health Serv Res. 2024 Sep 27;24(1): 1135
China accounts for 24% of newly diagnosed cancer cases and 30% of cancer-related deaths worldwide. This study aims to estimate the financial burden borne by patients and analyze the cost compositions of the leading cancers with th...
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Aug.Abdosaleh Jafari, Fatemeh A Hosseini, Faride S Jalali et al. Health Sci Rep. 2024 Aug 21;7(8):e70002
Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in the Western Hemisphere. It is the third most common cancer in men after prostate and lung cancers and the second most common cancer in women after breast cancer. According to so...
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Cancer imposes a substantial economic burden on patients that may be worse in patients with higher-stage disease due to the need for more therapy. This retrospective cohort study used administrative claims data of a large national...
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Agnes Brandtmüller , Anne Meiwald , Peter Toth , et al. J Med Econ 2026 Dec;29(1):785-798
Cancer imposes a substantial clinical and economic burden across Europe. This analysis estimated the lost productivity cost of the five cancer types with the highest premature mortality and five cancer types with the highest morbi...
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