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. 2024 Jun 4;41(7):2700–2722. doi: 10.1007/s12325-024-02893-y

Table 3.

Cost per person per procedure by specific resource or economic categories, by country or by breast cancer stage

By country
or stage
Diagnosis costs Drug costs Other medical costs Indirect costs Across all categories
C/Sa Median Range C/Sa Median Range C/Sa Median Range C/Sa Median Range C/Sa Median Range
US 10/5 $7,096 (707, 30,730) 2/1 $278 (276, 280) 12/6 $3,809 (276, 30,730)
Canada 2/1 $616 (224, 1009) 2/1 $616 (224, 1009)
Australia 1/1 $320 (320, 320) 1/1 $258 (258, 258) 2/2 $289 (258, 320)
UK 6/2 $3,187 (1347, 8916) 6/2 $3,187 (1347, 8916)
Italy 8/3 $3,607 (1989, 4500) 8/3 $3,607 (1989, 4500)
Netherlands 2/1 $2,149 (2149, 2149) 2/1 $2,466 (2400, 2533) 2/1 $24 (13, 34) 6/1 $2,149 (13, 2533)
Europe total 2/1 $2,149 (2149, 2149) 16/6 $3,592 (1347, 8916) 2/1 $24 (13, 34) 20/6 $2,619 (13, 8916)
Early only 12/5 $3,607 (224, 30,730) 2/1 $278 (276, 280) 14/6 $3,592 (224, 30,730)
Metastatic only
Both 2/1 $2,149 (2149, 2149) 3/2 $2,400 (1322, 2533) 2/1 $24 (13, 34) 7/2 $2,149 (13, 2533)
Not reported 1/1 $320 (320, 320) 14/6 $3,187 (707, 20,772) 15/7 $2,704 (320, 20,772)
Total 1/1 $320 (320, 320) 2/1 $2,149 (2149, 2149) 29/13 $3,586 (224, 30,730) 4/2 $155 (13, 280) 36/15 $2,466 (13, 30,730)

The country inclusion criteria were the US, Canada, Australia and Western Europe (UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands and Switzerland). If a country does not appear in the table, it is because a relevant article and/or cost for this table was not identified. All costs are standardised to US$2022

aC/S costs/studies: the median and range is constructed across a range of individual procedure cost estimates both within and across studies which were not combined. As such, the C/S statistic suggests how many costs and studies the median and range was constructed from. For example, 1/1 means one cost from one study was included (in these cases, the range is the same as the median). Alternatively, 16/6 means 16 cost estimates are accounted across 6 studies, with the median being from the 16 cost estimates, and the range indicating the lower and highest cost estimates