Pragmatic cancer screening trials mimic real-world scenarios in which patients and doctors are the ultimate arbiters of … of estimates from 17 sites in five randomized trials measuring screening effects on colorectal cancer incidence. While … cancer screening effects …

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

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 …

We examine the effects of state health insurance mandates requiring coverage of screening mammograms. We find robust … women with less than a high school degree in states that ban deductibles, a policy similar to a provision of federal health … not consistent with current recommendations of the American Cancer Society …

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

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 …

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 … sources of the 13.8% decline of the age-adjusted cancer mortality rate during 2000-2009. Drug innovation and imaging …

There is much debate about the effects of pharmaceutical direct to consumer advertising (DTCA) on health care use. In …

multiple dimensions of subjective well-being and objective health behaviors, laying bare gender disparities in health … behaviors, report enhanced self-perceived health, perceive higher relative income and social status, and exude greater … fact, they tend to engage in health-compromising behaviors, such as increased smoking, and exhibit higher rates of obesity …