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Breast Cancer Epidemiology of the Working-Age Female Population Reveals Significant Implications for the South Korean Economy

In this study, we aimed to evaluate the economic loss due to the diagnosis of breast cancer within the female South Korean working-age population. A population-based cost analysis was performed for cancer-related diagnoses between 1999 and 2014, using respective public government funded databases. A...

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Autores principales: Park, Jeong Hyun, Lee, Se Kyung, Lee, Jeong Eon, Kim, Seok Won, Nam, Seok Jin, Kim, Ji-Yeon, Ahn, Jin-Seok, Park, Won, Yu, Jonghan, Park, Yeon Hee
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Breast Cancer Society 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5880971/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29628989
http://dx.doi.org/10.4048/jbc.2018.21.1.91
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author Park, Jeong Hyun
Lee, Se Kyung
Lee, Jeong Eon
Kim, Seok Won
Nam, Seok Jin
Kim, Ji-Yeon
Ahn, Jin-Seok
Park, Won
Yu, Jonghan
Park, Yeon Hee
author_facet Park, Jeong Hyun
Lee, Se Kyung
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description In this study, we aimed to evaluate the economic loss due to the diagnosis of breast cancer within the female South Korean working-age population. A population-based cost analysis was performed for cancer-related diagnoses between 1999 and 2014, using respective public government funded databases. Among the five most common cancers, breast cancer mortality was strongly associated with the growth in gross domestic product between 1999 and 2014 (R=0.98). In the female population, breast cancer represented the greatest productivity loss among all cancers, which was a consequence of the peak in the incidence of breast cancer during mid-working age in the working-age population, in addition to being the most common and fastest growing cancer among South Korean women. Our study shows that breast cancer not only represents a significant disease burden for individual patients, but also contributes a real, nonnegligible loss in productivity in the South Korean economy.
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spelling pubmed-58809712018-04-06 Breast Cancer Epidemiology of the Working-Age Female Population Reveals Significant Implications for the South Korean Economy Park, Jeong Hyun Lee, Se Kyung Lee, Jeong Eon Kim, Seok Won Nam, Seok Jin Kim, Ji-Yeon Ahn, Jin-Seok Park, Won Yu, Jonghan Park, Yeon Hee J Breast Cancer Brief Communication In this study, we aimed to evaluate the economic loss due to the diagnosis of breast cancer within the female South Korean working-age population. A population-based cost analysis was performed for cancer-related diagnoses between 1999 and 2014, using respective public government funded databases. Among the five most common cancers, breast cancer mortality was strongly associated with the growth in gross domestic product between 1999 and 2014 (R=0.98). In the female population, breast cancer represented the greatest productivity loss among all cancers, which was a consequence of the peak in the incidence of breast cancer during mid-working age in the working-age population, in addition to being the most common and fastest growing cancer among South Korean women. Our study shows that breast cancer not only represents a significant disease burden for individual patients, but also contributes a real, nonnegligible loss in productivity in the South Korean economy. Korean Breast Cancer Society 2018-03 2018-03-23 /pmc/articles/PMC5880971/ /pubmed/29628989 http://dx.doi.org/10.4048/jbc.2018.21.1.91 Text en © 2018 Korean Breast Cancer Society http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Park, Jeong Hyun
Lee, Se Kyung
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Kim, Seok Won
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Ahn, Jin-Seok
Park, Won
Yu, Jonghan
Park, Yeon Hee
Breast Cancer Epidemiology of the Working-Age Female Population Reveals Significant Implications for the South Korean Economy
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title_fullStr Breast Cancer Epidemiology of the Working-Age Female Population Reveals Significant Implications for the South Korean Economy
title_full_unstemmed Breast Cancer Epidemiology of the Working-Age Female Population Reveals Significant Implications for the South Korean Economy
title_short Breast Cancer Epidemiology of the Working-Age Female Population Reveals Significant Implications for the South Korean Economy
title_sort breast cancer epidemiology of the working-age female population reveals significant implications for the south korean economy
topic Brief Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5880971/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29628989
http://dx.doi.org/10.4048/jbc.2018.21.1.91
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