Medical care costs incurred by patients with smoking-related non-small cell lung cancer treated at the National Cancer Institute of Mexico

Table 3 Total costs according to NSCLC clinical stage at INCan. 2013

Stage ⁺	Annual total cost	Annual total cost due to tobacco ^*
LC I	$48,617.17	$32,087.28
LC II	$80,957.16	$53,431.72
LC III	$985,634.28	$650,518.63
LC IV	$29,142,036.54	$19,233,744.07
Total	$30,257,245.15	$19,969,781.81

The cost was estimated in Mexican pesos 2009 and was adjusted by inflation for 2013 using the official INPC and inflation rate established by INEGI http://www.inegi.org.mx/sistemas/indiceprecios/CalculadoraInflacion.aspx.
Currency Dec 2013: USA dollar, 1 dollar = 13.06 Mexican pesos.
Exchange according to Bank of Mexico (Banxico) information.
⁺Structure established by the Lung Cancer experts of the INCan and the CIE-10 2009.
^*Obtained with tobacco attributable fraction of LC, calculated for national IMSS; 0.66. Reynales et al.

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