Published online:
02 October 2011
Summary
This report calculates the annual price of all cancers registered with the New Zealand Cancer Registry in 2008, and then estimates the drivers and likely magnitude of price change 10 years into the future, based on previous cancer incidence projections.
More than $500 million dollars a year is spent by the public health system on diagnosing and treating cancer and this is set to increase more than 20 per cent by 2021.
Identifying each cancer when it is diagnosed and how much it costs to treat, makes it easier to see where future cost pressures are likely and how best to manage them.