Economic cost of tobacco-related cancers in Sri Lanka

H Amarasinghe, S Ranaweera… - Tobacco …, 2018 - tobaccocontrol.bmj.com
economic costs of tobacco-related cancers in Sri Lanka and does not estimate the economic
costs … According to the National Cancer Registry of Sri Lanka, one in every 10 Sri Lankans

Economic burden of managing oral cancer patients in Sri Lanka: a cross-sectional hospital-based costing study

H Amarasinghe, RD Jayasinghe… - BMJ open, 2019 - bmjopen.bmj.com
… Objective Cancer of the oral cavity is the leading malignancy … Sri Lanka, and sixth among
women. This study aimed to estimate costs of managing patients with oral cancer (OCA) in Sri

Cancer services in Sri Lanka: current status and future directions

U Jayarajah, AM Abeygunasekera - … of the Egyptian National Cancer …, 2021 - Springer
… of life as well as becoming a financial burden [27]. As a country with a developing economy,
we should always try to adopt cost-effective alternatives despite western guidelines and …

Economic costs of alcohol use in Sri Lanka

S Ranaweera, H Amarasinghe, N Chandraratne… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
… When specific disease conditions are taken into account, the economic costs of the cancers
… fact that Sri Lanka has one of the highest incidences of such cancers [23]—cancers of the lip…

Economic cost of managing patients with oral potentially malignant disorders in Sri Lanka

H Amarasinghe, RD Jayasinghe… - … Dentistry and Oral …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… of OPMD and oral cancer amongst medical students in Sri Lanka is poor 16 and … costly than
managing patients with overt oral cancer. If this results in reduced incidence of oral cancer or …

Delivery of cancer care in Sri Lanka

S Gunasekera, S Seneviratne, T Wijeratne… - Journal of Cancer …, 2018 - Elsevier
… countries will be beyond the reach of Sri Lanka’s cancer care system due to the prohibitive
costs and the relatively modest gains that most of these agents offer to majority of patients. …

High Costs of Management of Oral Cancer in Sri Lanaka Mandate Prevention as Priority

H Amarasinghe, RD Jayasinghe… - Available at SSRN …, 2018 - papers.ssrn.com
… the total costs of management of OCA in Sri Lanka over the … the total costs of management
of OCA in Sri Lanka over the … Methods: This study was conducted in Sri Lankan tertiary care …

An overview of the burden of oral cancer in Sri Lanka and its inequalities in the face of contemporary economic and social malaise

I Perera, H Amarasinghe… - … Dentistry and Oral …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
… The direct cost of smoking and ST- related cancers of Sri Lanka was estimated to be US… of
the total cost, while the indirect cost was US$79.1 million, 65% of the total cost.Therefore, the …

The economic impact of cancer diagnosis to individuals and their families: a systematic review

A Alzehr, C Hulme, A Spencer… - … Care in Cancer, 2022 - Springer
… The aim of this systematic review is to identify the economic impact of a cancer diagnosis …
cost drivers following a cancer diagnosis and the impact on individuals diagnosed with cancer

[PDF][PDF] Program against Cancer in Sri Lanka

EHS Mbaye - researchgate.net
… However, in this study, in order to found the best cost-effective methods to prevent and treat
cancer, the number of machines needs is establishing among 3 millions of peoples and not …