We estimate price regressions for surgical procedures used to treat colon cancer, a leading cause of cancer mortality … information available to large payers who negotiate prices on behalf of their members. To get a cancer-specific index we emulate …

Previous investigators argued that increasing 5-year survival for cancer patients should not be taken as evidence of …We reexamine the question of whether increasing 5-year survival rates constitute evidence of success against cancer …While the change in the 5-year survival rate is not a perfect measure of progress against cancer, in part because it is …

avoidance as the sole criterion. We find that, by standards of OECD countries, the US does well in terms of screening for cancer …, survival rates from cancer, survival rates after heart attacks and strokes, and medication of individuals with high levels of … blood pressure or cholesterol. We consider in greater depth mortality from prostate cancer and breast cancer, diseases for …

coverage (65) in the United States. We focus in this paper on the use of services related to breast cancer. We test whether … Medicare improves the use of early detection services and ultimately stage of diagnosis of breast cancer particularly for … diagnosis of breast cancer lessen after the age of 65 for white women. We also find that turning 65 significantly increases the …

and cervical cancer among uninsured women in the US: one that paid for cancer screenings with federal funds and one that … paid for cancer treatments under state Medicaid programs. Using variation in rollout of each program across states from … 1991-2005, we find that funding for cancer treatment did not significantly increase most types of cancer screenings for …

cancer. We used a regression discontinuity design to assess impacts of near-universal Medicare insurance at age 65 on cancer … detection and outcomes, using population-based cancer registries and vital statistics data. Our analysis focused on the three … tumor sites for which screening is recommended both before and after age 65: breast, colorectal, and lung cancer. At age 65 …

between conventional radiotherapy and intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) for Medicare patients with breast cancer …

HPV vaccination for cervical cancer on participation in the Pap test, which is a diagnostic screening test to detect …