Lichtenberg, Frank R. - In: Latin American Economic Review 26 (2017) 1, pp. 1-22
I assess the impact that pharmaceutical innovation had on cancer mortality in Mexico during the period 2003-2013, by … investigating whether there were larger declines in the age-standardized mortality rate of cancer sites (breast, lung, colon, etc …. The estimates indicate that new drugs launched during 1991-2001 reduced the age-standardized cancer mortality rate by 16 …