Cost-Effectiveness Studies in Cancers
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Survivorship and Quality of Life".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 69
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Interests: public health; health-economics; drug-utilization; (pharmaco)epidemiology; pharmacovigilance
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Cancers are among the leading causes of death worldwide, accounting for approximately 10.0 million deaths in 2022. The incidence and mortality of cancer are expected to rise in the coming decades due to an aging population and the interaction of various risk factors, including tobacco use, alcohol use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, and air pollution. Cancer imposes a significant health, humanistic, and economic burden on society. It affects all aspects of the economy, including increased costs associated with patient management, reduced productivity, unemployment, labor losses, and decreased capital investment. Some studies estimate that cancer will cost the global economy USD 25.2 trillion, underscoring the urgent need for investment in cancer prevention, diagnosis, control, treatment, and rehabilitation.
In recent decades, the advent of genomic medicine and precision oncology has helped improve treatment outcomes. Advances in the understanding of molecular pathways and the availability of technologies for detecting actionable genetic mutations have enabled the development of targeted therapies that block specific pathway activities, thereby allowing personalized treatment options. However, these new treatments have posed significant challenges in sustainability and equity access to all patients for national healthcare systems. In this context, it is crucial to assess whether the additional costs of new treatments are justified by improved health outcomes. Therefore, decision modeling plays a crucial role in estimating the value of new cancer therapies. Given the increasing demand for new, effective treatments within the constraints of a limited healthcare budget, cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) provides decision makers with an objective basis for informed decision making.
This Special Issue aims for the following:
- Update the current knowledge on methodological aspects of conducting economic evaluations for cancer therapies;
- Provide new evidence on cost-effectiveness of innovative treatments used in the management of patients with cancer;
- Summarize evidence on the cost-effectiveness of cancer innovative treatments, as well as on the methods used to analyze health economic aspects of these therapies.
In this Special Issue, original articles and reviews are welcome.
Dr. Ippazio Cosimo Antonazzo
Dr. Paolo Cortesi
Dr. Pietro Ferrara
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- cancer therapies
- cost-effectiveness
- cost-utility
- cost-consequence
- treatment economic impact
- health economic
- economic sustainability
- public health
- decision analytical models.
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