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THE C ST OF BREAST CANCER - MODELLING THE ECONOMIC

17 Jan 2024

This means that by 2034, if nothing • In 2023, the cost of kidney disease in the UK is is done to prevent the impact of the disease, the estimated to be £7bn.6 estimated yearly cost to the economy will have risen to £3.6bn. [...] The diagnosis and treatment of cancer has a number • Labour market loss is also calculated using the of wide-ranging and long term impacts on the wage carers would have acquired in their regular wellbeing and quality of life of those diagnosed, work - this aligns with the amount of time the and on others. [...] The total cost of the loss of life satisfaction amongst partners of those with breast cancer stands at £638m Informal Carers in 2024, with a range of £495 - 793m.23 The total cost associated with loss of life satisfaction This is a combined figure, covering both the amongst carers of people with breast cancer stands ‘spillover’ effect in loss of mental wellbeing from the at £43m, with a range of £. [...] We use this reduction in costs in the the impact would be if we could: economic costs to reduce the NHS costs in the same • Halve the number of sick days taken by those ratio as the study and in the wellbeing costs to adjust with breast cancer the coefficient that improves wellbeing in line with the study. [...] Similarly older estimates of the costs of various 61 • Survival rates: An improvement in the survival cancers from the University of Oxford put the cost rates feed through mainly into the economic cost of breast cancer to the UK Economy, in 2012, at of labour market loss - through mortality in the £1.5bn, within a £15.8bn estimate of all cancer costs.
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