Lakdawalla, Darius N.; Sun, Eric C.; Jena, Anupam B.; … - In: Journal of Health Economics 29 (2010) 3, pp. 333-346
For decades, the US public and private sectors have committed substantial resources towards cancer research, but the … societal payoff has not been well-understood. We quantify the value of recent gains in cancer survival, and analyze the … distribution of value among various stakeholders. Between 1988 and 2000, life expectancy for cancer patients increased by roughly …