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Costs of Adjuvant Breast Cancer Treatments

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Adjuvant Therapy for Breast Cancer

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Breast cancer is the leading incident cancer and the second highest cause of cancer mortality in the U.S. In 2004, breast cancer treatment expenditures were $8.1 billion [1], and may account for as much as 1% of healthcare expenditures in the U.S. [2]. Increased early detection has led to a shift towards diagnosis of early stage cancer and with the array of adjuvant therapies available, average survival has improved over time [3]. Primary therapy for early breast cancer is commonly surgery. Following surgery, chemotherapy and endocrine therapy are used alone or in combination to kill cancer cells that have spread throughout the body, because a high percentage of patients with localized disease have undetectable metastases [4].

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Oestreicher, N. (2009). Costs of Adjuvant Breast Cancer Treatments. In: Castiglione, M., Piccart, M. (eds) Adjuvant Therapy for Breast Cancer. Cancer Treatment and Research, vol 151. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-75115-3_25

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