[Estimation of the treatment cost of cervical cancer].

Background: The goal of this study was to estimate direct costs induced by the first year of treatment of cervix cancers according to the stage at diagnosis.

Methods: Fifteen patients of the Gynaecology Department of the Besançon hospital (Doubs, France) were involved in a prospective study to estimate the real cost of treatment of carcinomas in situ (CIS) by conization and of microinvasive carcinomas (MIC) by simple hysterectomy. Costs of invasive cancers were obtained from a retrospective analysis of 24 hospital records in the Radiotherapy Department.