A Cost Benefit Analysis of AminoIndex™ Cancer Screening in Japan

Tamura, Masaoki : Akira Imaizumi : Takahiko Muramatsu : Nobuhisa Shimba
WP#15-14 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2015/08/03）

This article presents a cost benefit analysis of AminoIndexTM Cancer Screening (AICS) in Japan. AICS is a new cancer diagnosis method based on profiles of amino acids. The cost benefit analysis is performed on each type of cancer, each sex, and each age class. The results indicate that AICS is cost-beneficial mainly for 50-75 years old…