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  title info:
    title: Cost of treatment of breast cancer in a specialized hospital, Nepal
  name:
    name part: Shrestha, Bikash Babu.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    date issued: c2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 40p.
  abstract: ABSTRACT: Background: Breast cancer is a costly disease and imposes a large economic burden in many other low-and middle-income countries. There is a subsidy provided by Nepal government for cancer treatment which contributes NRs 1,00,000 through a scheme of support to impoverished citizen. However, there is no any study to assess if the subsidy is sufficient enough to prevent financial catastrophe in case of under-privileged patient. As per the literature survey, there is no any research done for estimation of cost of treatment of breast cancer in Nepal till date. Objectives: The general objective of the study is to appraise the economic burden of treatment of breast cancer and compare it with financial assistance provided by Nepal Government for cancer treatment under a scheme to support impoverished citizens. Method: This is a hospital based quantitative, retrospective study designed to estimate the cost of treatment for patient with breast cancer. The patient diagnosed with breast cancer visiting Nepal Cancer Hospital and Research Centre and admitted there were taken into consideration for the study. Only those patients with a confirmed diagnosis of breast cancer who had gone through treatment processes in National Cancer Hospital and Research Centre from January 2020 and December 2020 were included in the study. A structured data collection from (Annex 1) was used to enter data of patients from their prescription and other relevant medical data related to socio-demographic characteristics, type co cancer, stages of cancer, drug information, disease information, type of investigation and cost, laboratory investigation and cost, diagnosis and cost of treatment modalities (surgery, chemotherapy, hormonal therapy and radiotherapy). The data was entered in Microsoft Excel, analysis was done by using SPSS. Results: The mean and median total cost of treatment of breast cancer was estimated to be NRs 4,65,697.28 and NRs. 3,71,669.50 respectively with the total cost bro…
  note: Thesis Report.
  subject:
    topic: Cost of treatment
  subject:
    topic: Breast Cancer
  subject:
    topic: Specialized Hospital
  subject:
    topic: Nepal
  classification: THS-00626
  identifier: http://nhrc.gov.np/contact/
  record info:
    record creation date: 220621
    record change date: 20220906184722.0