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How good is cancer care in Portugal compared to other EU countries and what can be improved? This dashboard-style report provides a visual and quantitative description of selected performance indicators in all areas of cancer care. It also highlights the importance of measuring and comparing a country’s performance in all areas of cancer care with …
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The IHE Cancer Comparator Report 2025 took the center stage at the conference From Science to Access: Where are we in cancer care in 2025? in the European Parliament. The event was hosted by MEP Romana Jerković and organized by the EFPIA Oncology Platform. Thomas Hofmarcher set the scene by presenting the results of the …
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The Swedish Institute for Health Economics (IHE) and the Bengt Jönsson Foundation for Health Economics Research are hereby pleased to announce the recipient of the scholarship for this year’s student thesis in health economics. Read more
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The IHE Type 2 Diabetes Cohort Model (IHE-DCM-T2) is frequently used to estimate cost-effectiveness of interventions for type 2 diabetes in different parts of the world. The model has recently been updated to include Japan. Läs mer
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I3LUNG leads the way towards personalized oncology through artificial intelligence For the third consecutive year, Michael Willis, Research Director at IHE alongside the other partners of the I3LUNG consortium, an EU-funded project under the Horizon 2020 programme, have gathered for their annual meeting to share progress and reinforce their position as pioneers in the application …
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The results for Portugal from the Cancer Comparator Report 2025 were presented at the conference Oncology 2030 – Innovation Challenges in the Fight Against Cancer organized by APIFARMA – Portuguese Pharmaceutical Industry Association. Some findings: Portugal has the 8th highest cancer incidence rate and the 9th highest cancer mortality rate in Europe. Spending on cancer …
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The launch of the Cancer Comparator Report 2025 has created a lot of interest in Latvia. The uptake of new cancer medicines in Latvia is the lowest in the EU. Despite improvements in cancer survival over the last two decades, patients in Latvia still face challenges in accessing care on the same level as European …
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At the 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting, IHE presents a poster on “The development of the cost of cancer in 31 European countries”, authored together with Dr. Christer Svedman and Prof. Nils Wilking. Poster synopsis: Cancer poses a significant economic burden on societies. This cost-of-illness study estimated the direct and indirect costs of cancer across 31 …
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The Swedish Institute for Health Economics welcomes a new colleague, Urška Košir, as the new Project Manager in cancer policy.
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A new registry-based study from IHE has evaluated if clinical outcomes and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in Parkinson’s disease differ depending on whether patients meet the so-called 5-2-1 criteria. The criteria, which are based on motor symptoms, aim to identify patients with insufficient symptom control from oral medication. The results indicate a higher disease …