Screening for Helicobacter pylori in Cambodia: economical analysis

2016-06-06T06-50-55Z
Source: Advance Laboratory Medicine International
Kim San, Veera Rajadhan.
Gastric cancer is an important kind of gastrointestinal carcinoma. Presently, it is accepted that gastric cancer has a strong relationship to Helicobacter pylori infection. Screening for H. pylori becomes a new issue in gastric cancer prevention. Here, the author studies and discusses on the use of H. pylori screening as a strategy for gastric cancer prevention based on economical analysis in a scenario of a tropical developing country, Cambodia. According to this study, The finalized cost per unit utility (in 1,000,000 people scale) is equal to 4,950,496 and 4,255,320 US dollars for males and females. For individual scale (1 case), the unit cost is equal to 4.96 and 4.32 US dollars.


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