EFFICIENCY OF SCREENING AND EARLY DIAGNOSIS OF MALIGNANT NEOPLASMS: ECONOMIC ASPECT

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the economic aspects of screening and early diagnosis of malignant neoplasms. The differences between such elements of the fight against oncological diseases as screening and early cancer diagnosis are analyzed, and socio-economic criteria for evaluating the program of oncological diagnosis of patients are determined by a number of factors, including: costs of outpatient and inpatient treatment, losses from mortali-ty of the population, costs of equipment, personnel and information technology. It is established that in order to compare the cost-effectiveness of screening and early diagnosis of malignant neoplasms, it is necessary to compare the costs of conducting these types of diagnostics with the costs of treating cancers at the initial stage, as well as with possible social losses that the choice in favor of early cancer diagnosis may lead to.