Assessing the impact of kidney cancer-related premature mortality and productivity loss in Greece and Portugal

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Table 1. Key inputs and data sources used in model.

Absolute number of deaths from kidney cancer in 2019
Age group	0–14	15–39	40–44	45–49	50–54	55–59	60–64	65–69	70+	Reference
Greece	0	1	5	9	27	42	44	57	379	Eurostat Database (2019), [19]
Portugal	3	4	4	9	18	26	48	49	293
Life Expectancy
Gender	Male				Female
Greece	79				84					The World Bank (2019), [20,21]
Portugal	79				85
Mean annual earnings (€) (males)
Greece	0	22,763	23,377	23,377	27,678	27,678	27,678	27,678	27,678	Mean annual earnings (2018), [22]
Portugal	0	14,128	16,807	16,807	18,840	18,840	18,840	18,840	18,840
Mean annual earnings (€) (females)
Greece	0	45,964	30,587	30,587	22,039	22,039	22,039	22,039	22,039	Mean annual earnings (2018). [22]
Portugal	0	14,128	16,807	16,807	18,840	18,840	18,840	18,840	18,840
Labor force participation rate rates
Greece	52%									The World Bank, [23]
Portugal	59%

Table 2. Total number of deaths, YLL, YPLL, and PVFLP by country in 2019.

Country	Number of deaths	YLL	YLL/death	YPLL	PVFLP (€)	PVFLP (€)/kidney cancer-death
Greece	564	5,871	10	1,326	14,761,251	26,172
Portugal	454	5,397	12	1,278	11,798,133	25,987
All countries	1,018	11,268	11*	2,604	26,559,384	26,090*

YLL: Years of years of potential life lost, YPLL: Years of potential productive life lost, PVFLP: Present value of future lost productivity.

*Please note, this is the average for Greece and Portugal.

Table 3. Total number of deaths, YLL, YPLL, and PVFLP by country in 2019 stratified by sex.

Country	Number of deaths		YLL		YPLL		PVFLP (€)
	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female
Greece	388	176	3,636	2,234	912	414	10,721,213	4,040,038
Portugal	296	158	3,100	2,297	833	445	8,220,009	3,578,123

YLL: Years of years of potential life lost, YPLL: Years of potential productive life lost, PVFLP: Present value of future lost productivity.

Figure 1. Percentage of YLL and PVFLP by sex in 2019.

Table 4. Percentage of YLL and PVFLP by sex in 2019.

Country	% YLL		% PVFLP
	Male	Female	Male	Female
Greece	62%	38%	73%	27%
Portugal	57%	43%	70%	30%
All countries	60%	40%	71%	29%

YLL: Years of years of potential life lost, PVFLP: Present value of future lost productivity.

Figure 2. DSA results for annual PVFLP per death varied using lower and higher input parameter values.

DSA: Deterministic sensitivity analysis; PVFLP: Present value of future lost productivity;

Table 5. PVFLP (€)/kidney cancer-death at the lower and upper values of the input parameters.

Parameter	PVFLP (€)/kidney cancer-death at lower value	PVFLP (€)/kidney cancer-death at upper value
Retirement age	12,043	48,344
Average earnings	23,481	28,699
Unemployment rate	23,481	28,699
Mortality	26,090	26,090
Life expectancy	26,090	26,090

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