First-Year Healthcare Resource Utilization Costs of Five Major Cancers in Japan

Reports on the expenditure of cancer treatments per patient using comprehensive data remain unavailable in Japan. This study aimed to use Japan’s cancer registry data and health service utilization data for evaluating the disease-specific, per-patient costs of five major cancers—stomach, lung, color...

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Published inInternational journal of environmental research and public health Vol. 18; no. 18; p. 9447
Main Authors Watanabe, Tomone, Goto, Rei, Yamamoto, Yoko, Ichinose, Yuichi, Higashi, Takahiro
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Basel MDPI AG 07.09.2021
MDPI
Subjects
Age
Breast cancer
Cancer therapies
Colorectal cancer
Colorectal carcinoma
Costs
Diagnosis
Expenditures
Health care
Health services
Hospitalization
Hospitals
Information processing
Lung cancer
Patients
Prescription drugs
Resource utilization
United States > US
Japan
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Summary:Reports on the expenditure of cancer treatments per patient using comprehensive data remain unavailable in Japan. This study aimed to use Japan’s cancer registry data and health service utilization data for evaluating the disease-specific, per-patient costs of five major cancers—stomach, lung, colorectal, liver, and breast cancers. We used a database linking the 2017 data from a hospital-based cancer registry and the health service utilization data from the Diagnosis Procedure Combination survey. All patients who started their first treatment course at each hospital were included. The costs were calculated using the total volume of the health services provided and the unit fee information included in the data. We analyzed 304,698 patients. Lung cancer had the highest healthcare cost per-patient for the first year of diagnosis and the longest median hospitalization duration. Conversely, breast cancer showed the lowest cost and the shortest median hospitalization duration. However, in the first month after diagnosis, colorectal cancer showed the highest cost. Subsequently, the gaps between the costs of the five common cancers drastically diminished. The cancer type having the longest hospitalization duration had the highest overall healthcare resource utilization costs. This information is essential for care planning and research studies.
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ISSN:1660-4601
1661-7827
1660-4601
DOI:10.3390/ijerph18189447