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The importance of developing personalized risk prediction estimates has become increasingly evident in recent years.
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Policies to increase preventive testing in developing countries should include subsidies towards treatment costs.
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The burden of cancer is not experienced equally across the population: Nationwide, black Americans have higher rates of death from cancer than white Americans, and nowhere has this disparity been more apparent than in the nation's capital, writes Rebecca Anhang Price.
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Across the United States in 2009, overall cancer incidence was 4 percent higher among blacks than among whites. The disparity was more striking in Washington, D.C., where the overall cancer incidence among black residents was 54 percent higher than the incidence among white residents.
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Across the United States in 2009, overall cancer incidence was 4 percent higher among blacks than among whites. The disparity was more striking in Washington, D.C., where the overall cancer incidence among black residents was 54 percent higher than the incidence among white residents.
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Because cancer patients often receive poorly organised and fragmented care, University College Hospital Trust and Macmillan Cancer Support have established a new cancer centre. RAND Europe is evaluating the centre's efforts and developing a sustainable quality improvement environment across the partnership.
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Few patients 75 years of age and older participate in clinical trials, thus whether adjuvant chemotherapy for stage III colon cancer (CC) benefits this group is unknown.
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Health care in the United States is notoriously expensive while often failing to deliver the care recommended in published guidelines.
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This chapter presents an overview of computational modeling as a tool for multilevel cancer care and intervention research.
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This Statistical Brief presents data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) on hospital stays for cancer care in individuals under 18 years of age in 2009.
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There is a growing emphasis on promoting medical treatments that provide the most benefits relative to their costs.
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Assessments of the medical and economic value of therapies in diseases such as cancer traditionally focus on average or median gains in patients' survival.
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The higher-cost US system of cancer care delivery may be worth it, although further research is required to determine what specific tools or treatments are driving improved cancer survival in the United States.
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The addition of oxaliplatin to 5-FU appears to be associated with better survival among patients receiving adjuvant colon cancer treatment in the community.
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Cancer is the leading cause of death among men and women under age 85.
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This study demonstrates that the CanCORS Consortium was successful in enrolling a demographically representative sample within the CanCORS regions.
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Physician co-management, representing joint participation in the planning, decision-making, and delivery of care, is often cited in association with coordination of care. Yet little is known about how physicians manage tasks and how their management style impacts patient outcomes.
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Experts agree on many key issues regarding anaplastic large cell lymphoma in women with breast implants, but substantial research is needed to improve our understanding of the epidemiology, clinical aspects, and biology of this disease.
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US and Canadian differences in cancer screening due to each country's guidelines can potentially explain cross-country differences in breast cancer mortality and affect interpretation of international comparisons of cancer statistics.
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Decreased use of myeloid colony-stimulating factors in patients at lower or intermediate risk of febrile neutropenia from high-risk chemotherapy regimens could yield substantial cost savings without compromising patient outcomes.
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