I analyze the effects of four types of medical innovation and cancer incidence on US cancer mortality rates during the … period 2000–2009, by estimating difference-in-differences models using longitudinal (annual) data on ∼60 cancer sites (breast …-adjusted cancer mortality rate during 2000–2009. Drug innovation and imaging innovation are estimated to have reduced the cancer …

-outcome relationship on a regional (county or cancer registry) level. Using data from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance …, Epidemiology and End Results program we find that regions with relatively more of the same cancer type exhibit relatively better …

-outcome relationship on a regional (county or cancer registry) level. Using data from the National Cancer Institute’s Surveillance …, Epidemiology and End Results program we find that regions with relatively more of the same cancer type exhibit relatively better … health outcomes. -- Specialization ; experience ; cancer ; survival …