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. 2023 Aug 30;30(9):7984–8004. doi: 10.3390/curroncol30090580

Table 4.

Tumor locations accounting for 90% (*) of pharmaceutical antineoplastic expenditure in 2019.

Tumor Location % Total
Expenditure
% Total
Patients
Accumulated
Expenditure (Pareto)
Breast * 34.64 26.32 34.64
Lung cancer non-small cell * 12.43 11.41 47.07
Melanoma * 9.74 2.02 56.81
Colon * 8.00 11.23 64.81
Prostate * 6.50 3.54 71.31
Kidney * 4.70 1.70 76.01
Ovary * 4.46 5.88 80.47
Neuroendocrine * 3.47 1.84 83.94
Oral cavity and oropharynx * 2.94 4.04 86.88
Soft-tissue sarcoma * 2.17 2.13 89.05
Thyroid * 1.83 0.87 90.88
Rectum 1.44 4.22 92.33
Pancreas exocrine 1.35 4.19 93.67
Stomach 1.22 3.00 94.90
Brain 1.22 3.86 96.11
Uterine cervix 0.80 1.55 96.91
Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) 0.80 1.37 97.71
Larynx/hypopharynx 0.39 0.43 98.10
Other 0.35 0.00 98.44
Urinary bladder 0.32 1.88 98.77
Basal cell skin cancer 0.24 0.07 99.01
Other cutaneous tumors 0.16 0.18 99.17
Unknown primary tumor 0.15 0.14 99.33
Hepatic carcinoma 0.14 0.14 99.47
Extrahepatic bile duct 0.12 2.24 99.59
Anal 0.11 0.32 99.70
Endometrium 0.10 1.12 99.80
Lung cancer small cell 0.06 3.00 99.86
Ewing sarcoma 0.04 0.07 99.90
Testicular germinal 0.03 0.25 99.93
Esophagus 0.02 1.16 99.95
Rhinopharynx/cavum 0.02 0.40 99.97
Kaposi sarcoma 0.01 0.04 99.98
Thymoma 0.01 0.11 99.99
Osteosarcoma 0.00 0.18 99.99
Mesothelioma 0.00 0.14 99.99
Pancreas endocrine 0.00 0.07 99.99
Gallbladder 0.00 0.11 100.00
Penis 0.00 0.07 100.00
Adrenal 0.00 0.04 100.00
Squamous cell skin cancer 0.00 0.04 100.00