TY - JOUR AU - Stokes, Michael E. AU - Ishak, Jack AU - Proskorovsky, Irina AU - Black, Libby K. AU - Huang, Yijian PY - 2011 DA - 2011/12/28 TI - Lifetime economic burden of prostate cancer JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 349 VL - 11 IS - 1 AB - Prostate cancer (PCa) is the most common cancer affecting men in the United States. The initial treatment and subsequent monitoring of PCa patients places a large burden on U.S. health care systems. The objectives of this study were to estimate the total and disease-related per-patient lifetime costs using a phase-based model of cancer care for PCa patients enrolled in Medicare. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-11-349 DO - 10.1186/1472-6963-11-349 ID - Stokes2011 ER -