COSMO Insight Report

“Patient Insight Report: Women’s Cancer”

Overview:

The anticancer therapy market has increased threefold in the last ten years. Once considered an incurable disease, the five-year survival rate is improving every year and cancer today is increasingly becoming a disease that one “lives with.”​

An increase in cancer treatment options has prompted new medical practices. Informed consent sees patients agree to treatment options only after receiving explanations from their physicians, while shared decision-making has physicians and patients confirm evidential information and select treatment methods together. Healthcare today is shifting from treatment that physicians one-sidedly offer, to one that patients proactively learn about and choose. ​

This report examines women’s cancer (gynecological and breast cancer) patients’ attitudes and behaviors when selecting treatment, with a focus on patients of the three main women’s cancers. It then sets out to determine how the volume and content of media coverage influence the patient’s decision-making on treatment, as well as the influence of activities by patient group and information shared by individuals.​

 

Research Overview:

1. Women’s cancer patients’ attitudes toward treatment 

Purpose:
To understand gynecological cancer patients’ attitudes and behavior when selecting treatment

Period:  March 11, 2020 – March 16, 2020

Method:  Online survey

Respondents:
Male and female nationwide, aged 20-68, patients of ten cancer types

Sample size:
Total of 300 respondents (patients of all ten cancer types), of which 90 respondents are patients of the three primary gynecological cancer types or breast cancer (ovarian cancer patients: 30, cervical and endometrial cancer patients: 30, breast cancer patients: 30)

Research company: Rakuten Insight, Inc.

 

2. Empowerment by women’s cancer patient groups

Purpose:
To understand the influence of patient groups, patient support groups, and individuals on social media

Research criteria:
A. Patient groups’ number of members, partner companies and organizations, experience of representatives, volume of media coverage, social media activity etc.
Period: January 1, 2017 – December 31, 2019

B. Patient, former patient, patient families, and healthcare providers’ Twitter activity, including number of followers, tweets, and retweets and the content of tweets
Period: January 1, 2019 – December 31, 2019

 

3. Media coverage trends for women’s cancer

Purpose:
A. Analysis of coverage on women’s cancer
B. Analysis of coverage on companies in women’s cancer area

Analysis criteria:
Number, trends, and tone of articles on women’s cancer, diseases, and related companies by the five national papers (searched via Nikkei Telecom)

Period:  January 1, 2019 – December 31, 2019

Price list:

Language types of report, Option Fee Fee (incl. tax)
Japanese report (global license) 300,000JPY 330,000JPY
English report (global license) 300,000JPY 330,000JPY
English & Japanese report (global license) 500,000JPY 550,000JPY
□ Option: Presentation 100,000JPY 110,000JPY

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