Table 5.
Mean estimated cost per patient, by cancer type and resource use category, with Bayesian credible intervals.
| Cancer type | Health care |
Social care |
Charity care |
Informal care |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean (95% CI) | Mean (95% CI) | Mean (95% CI) | Mean (95% CI) | Mean (95% CI) | |
| Breast | £4346 | £2843 | £480 | £4868 | £12,663 |
| (£395 to £12,545) | (£84 to £10,170) | (£7 to £1845) | (£18 to £21,818) | (£1249 to £38,712) | |
| Colorectal | £4854 | £1489 | £470 | £2850 | £9760 |
| (£413 to £14,485) | (£44 to £5350) | (£6 to £1833) | (£10 to £13,350) | (£1037 to £29,545) | |
| Lung | £3157 | £1358 | £459 | £2420 | £7467 |
| (£332 to £8944) | (£39 to £4838) | (£6 to £1775) | (£9 to £11,153) | (£855 to £21,663) | |
| Prostate | £6687 | £2728 | £482 | £4814 | £14,859 |
| (£535 to £20,257) | (£83 to £9588) | (£6 to £1906) | (£18 to £21,981) | (£1391 to £46,424) | |
| Meana | £4254 | £1829 | £468 | £3265 | £9914 |
CI: credible interval.
Based on 10,000 Monte Carlo simulations.
a
Mean weighted by proportion of deaths due to each cancer in the total population (Table 4).