cross-country differences in breast cancer mortality and affect interpretation of international comparisons of cancer …Objective. To understand whether US and Canadian breast, colorectal and prostate cancer screening test utilization is … consistent with US and Canadian cancer screening guideline information with respect to the age of screening initiation. Design …

Background: Cancer screening guidelines reflect the costs and benefits of population-based screening based on evidence … from clinical trials. While most of the existing literature on compliance with cancer screening guidelines only measures … Canadian provinces for breast, colorectal and prostate cancer screening. Measuring compliance as the change in age …

proposals of improving cancer patients’ outcomes. Unlike many OECD countries, there is no universal coverage for prescription … impoverishment, if they are diagnosed with cancer. Long wait times for potentially life-savings treatments, slow addition of new … cancer drugs to provincial formulary and restrictive drug coverage criteria further confound the access barriers, leading to …

The premature cancer mortality rate has been declining in Canada, but there has been considerable variation in the rate … of decline across cancer sites. I analyze the effect that pharmaceutical innovation had on premature cancer mortality in … Canada during the period 2000-2011, by investigating whether the cancer sites that experienced more pharmaceutical innovation …