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KMID : 1134120180210010091
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Journal of Breast Cancer
2018 Volume.21 No. 1 p.91 ~ p.95
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Breast Cancer Epidemiology of the Working-Age Female Population Reveals Significant Implications for the South Korean Economy
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Park Jeong-Hyun
Lee Se-Kyung
Lee Jeong-Eon
Kim Seok-Won
Nam Seok-Jin
Kim Ji-Yeon
Ahn Jin-Seok
Park Won
Yu Jong-Han
Park Yeon-Hee
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Abstract
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In this study, we aimed to evaluate the economic loss due to the diagnosis of breast cancer within the female South Korean working-age population. A population-based cost analysis was performed for cancer-related diagnoses between 1999 and 2014, using respective public government funded databases. Among the five most common cancers, breast cancer mortality was strongly associated with the growth in gross domestic product between 1999 and 2014 (R=0.98). In the female population, breast cancer represented the greatest productivity loss among all cancers, which was a consequence of the peak in the incidence of breast cancer during mid-working age in the working-age population, in addition to being the most common and fastest growing cancer among South Korean women. Our study shows that breast cancer not only represents a significant disease burden for individual patients, but also contributes a real, nonnegligible loss in productivity in the South Korean economy.
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KEYWORD
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Breast neoplasms, Costs and cost analysis, Employment, Female, Quality of life
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