, 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 …

uninsured women with breast cancer, we compared insured and uninsured women treated in a safety net setting. Controlling for … that, despite the safety net system, uninsured women with breast cancer are likely to require more costly treatment and to … have worse outcomes, relative to insured women with breast cancer …

breast cancer treatments, where lumpectomy with radiation therapy is more expensive than mastectomy but generates similar …