ArticleAsian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP2019
Cost- Effectiveness of Mammography Screening Program in a Resource-Limited Post-Soviet Country of Kazakhstan.
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- Health Economic Evaluations of Breast Cancer Screening Strategies: A Systematic Review Focusing on Methodology and Quality Assessment.Applied health economics and health policy · 2026Pooled it
- Economic evaluations of mammography to screen for breast cancer in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review.Journal of global health · 2022Pooled it
- Cost of illness of breast cancer in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review.Health economics review · 2024Review
- Evaluation of Financial Interventions in Breast Cancer Care Worldwide: A Systematic Review.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2024Article
- Prioritizing Mammography Screening in Developing Countries: Are We Putting the Cart Before the Horse?Annals of surgical oncology · 2024Article
- Breast Cancer in Asia: Incidence, Mortality, Early Detection, Mammography Programs, and Risk-Based Screening Initiatives.Cancers · 2022Review
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Abstract
objectivesTo conduct cost effectiveness and benefit-cost analyses of the organized mammography-screening program in the Republic of Kazakhstan comparing women who developed breast cancer in screened and unscreened scenario.
methods389,352 screened women were included in the study. Among these, 895 women were further diagnosed with breast cancer. Outcomes measures include life years saved, quality-adjusted life years, incremental cost-effectiveness ratio, and value of statistical life year. Sensitivity analyses were performed to assess uncertainty.
resultsCompared to no screening scenario, an organized mammography yielded an additional 1,253 life years and 790 quality-adjusted life years in 2016. The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio was equal to 3,157 USD per one QALY saved, which is two times less than the GDP per capita in Kazakhstan in 2016. Sensitivity analysis showed that the mammography remains cost-effective in the majority of the scenarios.
conclusionMammography screening in Kazakhstan was found to be highly cost-effective, associated with treatment cost savings, and can be an efficient use of limited resources in Kazakhstan.
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