Why equal treatment is not always equitable: the impact of existing ethnic health inequalities in cost-effectiveness modeling

Table 1 Phase duration and disability weights for lung, female breast, and colon cancer

*Disability weights were sourced from the 2010 Global Burden of Disease [17] with modification to the NZ distribution of cancers [16].
**Remission refers to the period between diagnosis and treatment and either pre-terminal disease or statistical cure.
Note: For example, an individual dying of lung cancer one year after diagnosis will spend 5 months in the treatment and diagnosis phase; 1 month in remission; 5 months in the pre-terminal phase, and their final month in the terminal phase.

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