Titlebook: Assessing the Economic Value of Anticancer Therapies; Niels Neymark Conference proceedings 1998 Springer-Verlag Berlin · Heidelberg 1998 K

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Lung Cancer, believed to reflect the fact that women took up the habit of smoking some decades later than men and seem to give up smoking to a lesser extent than men. The prognosis for patients with lung cancer is invariably very poor, as only 13% of patients with the diagnosis will survive 5 years.

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Colorectal Cancer, overall incidence, which is expected to grow by about 10% from the late 1980s to 2005, while the mortality rate is expected to rise by 3%. The 5-year survival rate for both types of cancers have increased by about 10 percentage points since the mid 1950s and is now a little more than 50% for each.

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Hematological Malignancies, the incidence of the five to six most common solid tumors. Further, their significance for the understanding of the disease mechanisms in oncology in general and for the development of new treatment regimens has been disproportionate to their relatively modest incidence.

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Introduction, of diseases are responsible for about two thirds of the annual deaths. Some figures. may illuminate the order of magnitude of the problem. For all the types of cancers considered together, the prevalence rate is about 1% of the population and the yearly incidence rate is about 0.5%. It is primarily

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Cancer and Some Basics of the Main Treatment Modalities,irst, a short and extremely simplified description is given of cancer understood as a cellular disease or rather as a large number of cellular diseases, sharing some basic common characteristics. In the subsequent part of the chapter, an introduction to the main treatment modalities in cancer and th

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The Economic Burden of Cancer,plications of disease for the direct victims and for society at large are pain, suffering, disability, and death. Vast amounts of human and technical resources are devoted to detection, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases, but despite this effort, millions of years of life are lost or spent in a st

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