not consistent with current recommendations of the American Cancer Society …

breast cancer, comparing labor supply responses to breast cancer diagnoses between women dependent on their own employment … cancer - the estimate difference is about 5.5 to 7 percent. Women's subjective responses to questions about working more to …

Previous investigators argued that increasing 5-year survival for cancer patients should not be taken as evidence of … rates constitute evidence of success against cancer, using data from both the U.S. and Australia. When incidence growth is … 1984 and 2001.While the change in the 5-year survival rate is not a perfect measure of progress against cancer, in part …

I analyze the effects of four types of medical innovation and cancer incidence on U.S. cancer mortality rates during … the period 2000-2009, by estimating difference-in-differences models using longitudinal (annual) data on about 60 cancer ….8% decline of the age-adjusted cancer mortality rate during 2000-2009. Drug innovation and imaging innovation are estimated to …

We estimate price regressions for surgical procedures used to treat colon cancer, a leading cause of cancer mortality … information available to large payers who negotiate prices on behalf of their members. To get a cancer-specific index we emulate …

avoidance as the sole criterion. We find that, by standards of OECD countries, the US does well in terms of screening for cancer …, survival rates from cancer, survival rates after heart attacks and strokes, and medication of individuals with high levels of … blood pressure or cholesterol. We consider in greater depth mortality from prostate cancer and breast cancer, diseases for …

The average price of treating a colorectal cancer patient with chemotherapy increased from about $100 in 1993 to $36 … for colorectal cancer drugs for each quarter between 1993 and 2005 that takes into consideration the quality (i.e., the …

(before ages 75, 65, and 55) cancer mortality and hospitalization, by estimating difference-in-differences models based on … longitudinal, cancer-site-level data on about 30 cancer sites. The estimates indicate that cancer sites about which more research …-2013, controlling for the change in the number of people diagnosed. Cancer sites for which more non-research-supported articles were …

I investigate whether the types of cancer (breast, colon, lung, etc.) subject to greater penetration of new ideas had … the 1994-2008 increase in the 5-year observed survival rate for all 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 …