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relative to breast cancer mortality within an influential clinical trial. I conclude with some responses to the evolving …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Current mammography guidelines reflect evidence that mammography could be harmful on average through the overdiagnosis of breast cancers that would not eventually cause symptoms in the long term. To inform targeting within these guidelines, I investigate whether some women are more likely to...
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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 …
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, 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 …
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of these effects vary sharply. Cardiovascular disease, cancer, and HIV are the most significant sources of mortality rate …
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not consistent with current recommendations of the American Cancer Society …
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Previous investigators argued that increasing 5-year survival for cancer patients should not be taken as evidence of …We reexamine the question of whether increasing 5-year survival rates constitute evidence of success against cancer …While the change in the 5-year survival rate is not a perfect measure of progress against cancer, in part because it is …
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