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. 2022 Dec 12;20:68. doi: 10.1186/s12962-022-00408-6

Table 4.

Indirect costs among women with breast cancer

No. First author Reference year for costs Region Costing approach Data gathering Type of indirect cost Cost (US dollars)
1 Mathias Lidgren [45] 2005 Sweden HC Not specified Premature death 165,695.42
Missed days’ work 20,167.36 to 48,407.67
Total 33,992.96 for women aged lower than 50 years
24,724.97 for women aged 50–64 years
2 Rugile Ivanauskiene [40] 2008 lithuania HC Not specified Premature death 38,314,351.03
Morbidity 69,856,613.68
Total 150,204,061.57
3 Steven Broekx [38] 2006 Belgium HC Not specified Premature death 33,930.20 per patient
Morbidity 12,537.91 per patient
Total 51,325.88
4 Maneeta Jain [55] India HC Not specified Missed days’ work 128,104.58
Unpaid 297,548.46
Total 1,337,388.34
Productivity loss 14,014,584.40
5 Błażej Łyszczarz [35] 2010–2014 Poland HC Not specified Premature death 103,782,672.49
Morbidity 126,857,360.69
Missed days’ work 79,153,502.28
Unpaid help 301,578.48
Total 434,722,812.46
6 G. T. Vondeling [52] 1990–2014 Netherlands HC Not specified Premature death 331,729,844.30
Morbidity 354,937,281.96
7 Eija Roine [58] 2009–2010 Finland HC Not specified Mean loss productivity loss in primary treatment 11,743.73
Mean loss productivity loss in metatatic 9794.59
Sick leave 11,219.12
Informal care Primary treatment = 2895.30
Metas = 3944.53
8 Justin G. Trogdon [51] 2015 United State HC Not specified The value of lost work and home productivity days associated with mBC nationally Younger women = 73,331,141.63
Midlife women = 269,245,684.18
Older women = 72,236,646.98
9 Wendy Max [46] 2001 United State Prevalence base Premature death 2,157,428,410.62
10 Eric S.Meadows [57] 2005 United State Incidence based Morbidity 6428.50
11 Sonja V.Sorensen [50] 2010 United State Incidence based Premature death 321,957,234.86
Missed days’ work 301,934,425.64
Unpaid help 54,773,302.74
Total 682,998,152.02
12 de las.Heras [60] 2016 Spain Incidence based Total 388.41
13 Louisa Gordon [54] 2005 Australia Not specified Missed days’ work 2494$
Unpaid help 435.56$
Total 3732.47
14 Yin Wan [31] Not specified United State Not specified Morbidity MBC = 6165.8
EBC = 3689.7
Missed days’ work MBC = 1584
EBC = 1015
15 Alessandra Binazzi [53] 2006 Italy Not specified Value of work productivity lost 71,767,637.28$
16 Hafiz Zahid Mahmood [56] 2015 Pakistan Not specified Missed days’ work 70.49
Unpaid help 21.61
Total 326.23
17 Ravi K.Goyal [61] 2015 United State Not specified Total 11,379.46
18 Clement Ferrier [32] Not specified France HC&FC Not specified Missed days’ work 22,898.12(HC)
Per patient
7571.43(FC)
Per patient
Total 25,162.79(HC)
Per patient
8553.71(FC)
Per patient
19 Rajabali Daroudi [10] 2010 Iran HC Prevalence base Premature death 226,544.05
Missed days’ work 6348.27
20 Wesley Yin [59] 2013 United State HC&FC Not specified Missed days’ work Non-metastatic: 27,238.20 metastatic: 34,564.53
21 Juan Oli va [47] Not specified Spain HC&FC Not specified Premature death 223,328.35 based on HCA and 4,518,628.55 based on FCA
Permanent disability 314,671,039.50 based on HCA and 10,771,684.06 based on FCA
Total 570,359,693.86 based on HCA and 22,956,005.13 based on FCA
22 Paul Hanly [39] 2008 Ireland HC&FC Not specified Premature death 108,419.60 based on HCA and 1488.61 based on FCA
Morbidity 139,799.76 based on HCA and 8909.85 based on FCA
Missed days’ work 63,566.23 based on HCA and 33.37 based on FCA
Total 248,219.35 based on HCA and 10,398.46 based on FCA
23 KIM S.G [43] 2002 Korea HC Prevalence base Premature death 253,290,344.47
Morbidity 179,708,791.89
24 Alison Pearce [48] 2011–2030 Ireland HC Incidence based Premature death 52,251,513,523.53
Value of lost paid production 1,772,314,850.60
25 Cathy J. Bradley [33] 2010 United State HC Not specified Premature death 12,981,917,165.92
Unpaid help 308 billion
26 Paul Hanly [36] 2008 HC Not specified Premature death 5,742,690,674.97
27 Kwang-Sig Lee [44] 2010 Korea HC Not specified Premature death 715,990,885.54
Morbidity 596,659,071.28
28 Soheila Khorasani [42] 2012 Iran HC Not specified Premature death 171,960,573.41
29 Behzad Karami-matin [41] 2006–2010 Iran HC Not specified Premature death 5698.01 in 2006, 6088.31 in 2007, 5777.21 in 2008, 5900.88 in 2009, 4546.44 in 2010
30 Alicia C.Sasser [49] 1998–2000 United State Not specified Premature death 6760.01
Morbidity 5338.09
31 Ramon Luengo [34] 2009 European Union Not specified Unpaid help 2,612,459,857.54
Total 2,653,279,542.82
32 Rijo M John [62] 2008 Global Not specified Indirect cost 88 billions
33 Anton Barchuk [37] 2016 Russia HC Incidence based Premature death 22,386