relative to breast cancer mortality within an influential clinical trial. I conclude with some responses to the evolving …

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

long-run increase in 5-year cancer survival rates is due to improved prevention, screening, or therapy …Previous investigators argued that increasing 5-year survival for cancer patients should not be taken as evidence of … improved prevention, screening, or therapy, because they found little correlation between the change in 5-year survival for a …

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 estimates indicate that cancer sites about which more research-supported articles were published since the 1970s … in the number of people diagnosed. Cancer sites for which more non-research-supported articles were published did not … lost before age 75 due to cancer in 2013 by 566 thousand. The research support that contributed to articles published …

2001 and 2007. We limit our empirical cohort to drugs commonly used to treat cancer and base our analyses on nationally …

on the prescribing of physician-administered cancer drugs in Medicare. We find that prescribing of the associated drug … fading out within a year. A marketing payment also leads physicians to begin treating cancer patients with lower expected … mortality. While payments result in greater expenditure on cancer drugs, there are no associated improvements in patient …

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 …