Table 4. Average treatment cost of screened and unscreened patients from 2002 to 2011.
Stage | Total costs (US $) |
Screened patients, n (%) |
Unscreened patients, n (%) |
Average treatment cost for screened patients (US $) |
Average treatment cost for unscreened patients (US $) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Stage 1 | 2988.84 | 101 (14.01) | 26 (7.81) | 418.73 | 233.43 |
Stage 2 | 2999.28 | 349 (48.40) | 170 (51.05) | 1451.65 | 1531.13 |
Stage 3 | 1744.39 | 261 (36.20) | 114 (34.23) | 631.47 | 597.10 |
Stage 4 | 1741.47 | 10 (1.39) | 23 (6.91) | 24.21 | 120.34 |
All | 721 (100) | 333 (100) | 2526.06 | 2482.00 |
Note.US $1=1706 Tanzanian shillings.