Disease and economic burden of prostate cancer in Malaysia: a review

Introduction In Malaysia prostate cancer is ranked as fifth type of cancer among male. Unlike other cancers, prostate cancer is slow growth type of cancer; hence most patients may be asymptomatic despite having the disease. The burden associated with prostate cancer disease started from the diagnos...

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Main Authors: Norzaher Ismail, Aniza Ismail
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Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12717/
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spelling ukm-127172019-03-26T21:58:49Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12717/ Disease and economic burden of prostate cancer in Malaysia: a review Norzaher Ismail, Aniza Ismail, Introduction In Malaysia prostate cancer is ranked as fifth type of cancer among male. Unlike other cancers, prostate cancer is slow growth type of cancer; hence most patients may be asymptomatic despite having the disease. The burden associated with prostate cancer disease started from the diagnosis, the progress of disease and the varying impact of the available treatment options till the quality of life. The review focused on the disease and economic burden of prostate cancer disease towards country and patient personally. Methods A search was conducted to review related published studies on economic burden of the prostate cancer through PubMed/MEDLINE, Google Schorlar and Science Direct searching engines databases using keywords: Prostate cancer, economic burden and disease burden, treatment burden and treatment cost. For exploration on the burden itself, the keywords used were economic cost, mortality, morbidity, quality of life, treatment burden, palliative care. A review on the morbidity and mortality comparing global, Asian and Malaysia situation reviewed from previous review paper and online data. Conclusions Economic burden of prostate cancer include quality of life, treatment cost and palliative cost and palliative support care system. Development and improvise of the treatment facilities and equipment, strong knowledge and clinical training of staff in the treatment of cancer should be well planned in order to reduce the increasing burden of prostate cancer in Malaysia. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2019 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12717/1/227-1181-1-PB.pdf Norzaher Ismail, and Aniza Ismail, (2019) Disease and economic burden of prostate cancer in Malaysia: a review. International Journal of Public Health Research, 9 (1). pp. 1073-1080. ISSN 2232-0245 http://spaj.ukm.my/ijphr/index.php/ijphr/issue/view/24
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description Introduction In Malaysia prostate cancer is ranked as fifth type of cancer among male. Unlike other cancers, prostate cancer is slow growth type of cancer; hence most patients may be asymptomatic despite having the disease. The burden associated with prostate cancer disease started from the diagnosis, the progress of disease and the varying impact of the available treatment options till the quality of life. The review focused on the disease and economic burden of prostate cancer disease towards country and patient personally. Methods A search was conducted to review related published studies on economic burden of the prostate cancer through PubMed/MEDLINE, Google Schorlar and Science Direct searching engines databases using keywords: Prostate cancer, economic burden and disease burden, treatment burden and treatment cost. For exploration on the burden itself, the keywords used were economic cost, mortality, morbidity, quality of life, treatment burden, palliative care. A review on the morbidity and mortality comparing global, Asian and Malaysia situation reviewed from previous review paper and online data. Conclusions Economic burden of prostate cancer include quality of life, treatment cost and palliative cost and palliative support care system. Development and improvise of the treatment facilities and equipment, strong knowledge and clinical training of staff in the treatment of cancer should be well planned in order to reduce the increasing burden of prostate cancer in Malaysia.
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author Norzaher Ismail,
Aniza Ismail,
spellingShingle Norzaher Ismail,
Aniza Ismail,
Disease and economic burden of prostate cancer in Malaysia: a review
author_facet Norzaher Ismail,
Aniza Ismail,
author_sort Norzaher Ismail,
title Disease and economic burden of prostate cancer in Malaysia: a review
title_short Disease and economic burden of prostate cancer in Malaysia: a review
title_full Disease and economic burden of prostate cancer in Malaysia: a review
title_fullStr Disease and economic burden of prostate cancer in Malaysia: a review
title_full_unstemmed Disease and economic burden of prostate cancer in Malaysia: a review
title_sort disease and economic burden of prostate cancer in malaysia: a review
publisher Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2019
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12717/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12717/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12717/1/227-1181-1-PB.pdf
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