Relying on data from the Health and Retirement Study, we examine differences between breast cancer survivors and a non-cancer … control group in employment, hours worked, wages, and earnings. Overall, breast cancer has a negative impact on the decision … women in the non-cancer control group. These findings suggest that while breast cancer has a negative effect on women …

and cervical cancer among uninsured women in the US: one that paid for cancer screenings with federal funds and one that … paid for cancer treatments under state Medicaid programs. Using variation in rollout of each program across states from … 1991-2005, we find that funding for cancer treatment did not significantly increase most types of cancer screenings for …

recommendation. We explore this distinction in the context of recommendations that breast cancer screening start at age 40. The raw … data suggest that responders to the age 40 recommendation have less cancer than do women who self-select into screening at … recommendation also have less cancer than women who never screen, suggesting that the benefits of recommending early screening are …

cancer. We used a regression discontinuity design to assess impacts of near-universal Medicare insurance at age 65 on cancer … detection and outcomes, using population-based cancer registries and vital statistics data. Our analysis focused on the three … tumor sites for which screening is recommended both before and after age 65: breast, colorectal, and lung cancer. At age 65 …

I investigate whether the types of cancer (breast, colon, lung, etc.) subject to greater penetration of new ideas had … cancer sites combined may have been due to the increase in the novelty of medical ideas 12-24 years earlier …The number of years of potential life lost from cancer before ages 80 and 70 are inversely related to the novelty of …

, we focus on patients newly diagnosed with cancer. They display the familiar pattern: even among cancer patients with … reductions. We also find that among patients with the same cancer type and initial prognosis, end-of-life spending is …

of these effects vary sharply. Cardiovascular disease, cancer, and HIV are the most significant sources of mortality rate …

. These treatments promise to dramatically raise durable survival rates for a growing number of cancer patients but are often … immunotherapy for melanoma patients. Extrapolating to 17 other cancer sites, we estimate the insurance sector's benefit to equal $6 …

In 2004, France introduced a national program of organized breast cancer screening. The national program built on pre …