Cancer

Breast Cancer
commentary
Treating Breast Cancer Is Not Just About the Disease: Its Wider Impacts Need to Be Considered, Too
Daniela Rodriguez-Rincon, Catriona Manville @CMManville
Oct 22, 2019
The RAND Blog
Successes in the early treatment of breast cancer are to be celebrated. But those achievements need not limit the development of further and better treatment for patients. Understanding the disease's wider effects could help bring this about.
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Survey Research Methodology
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Points to Consider When Using Surveys of Cancer Patients
Catherine L. Saunders, Gary A. Abel
Jul 19, 2016
Statistics Views
Patient surveys provide unique insights for improving cancer care quality and new opportunities for research. However, features of survey populations such as sampling and early mortality should be accounted for when analyzing the findings.
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Cost-Effectiveness in Health Care
commentary
Knowing When to Say Yes to Medical Technology
Emmett B. Keeler
Nov 18, 2014
The Health Care Blog
CT lung cancer screening turns out to be like many new medical technologies: It improves health but is quite expensive. Moreover, it needs implementation that targets those most likely to benefit and provides them the care they need efficiently.
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Health Disparities
blog
Understanding the Roots of Dramatic Black-White Cancer Disparities in the Nation's Capital
Rebecca Anhang Price
Oct 22, 2012
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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Public Health
commentary
Worth Its Weight in Gold?
Roland Sturm
Apr 21, 2011
Public Service Review: European Union
In terms of healthcare use and chronic health conditions, obesity is comparable to aging 20 years, with the health of a 30 year old resembling that of a 50 year old, writes Roland Sturm.
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It may be too late for prevention or containment [of COVID-19] among farmworkers. But without action the human toll will be tragic and the effect on our food supply will be critical failure. [FEMA], the [CDC], and state governments must include farmworkers and agricultural communities in their emergency response plans.

Susan L. Marquis

Dean, Pardee RAND Graduate School

Source: The RAND Blog

If people can come together around COVID-19, and all developments are showing that they can, then perhaps they can be equally innovative in tackling many of the more silent 'COVIDs' of the time—i.e., the less immediately impactful but equally urgent and important challenges associated with aging and frailty, mental health, cancer, comorbidities, and health inequalities as just some examples.

Sonja Marjanovic

Senior Research Leader and Head of THIS Institute-RAND Europe partnership

Source: The RAND Blog

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Cancer

Treating Breast Cancer Is Not Just About the Disease: Its Wider Impacts Need to Be Considered, Too

Points to Consider When Using Surveys of Cancer Patients

Knowing When to Say Yes to Medical Technology

Understanding the Roots of Dramatic Black-White Cancer Disparities in the Nation's Capital

Worth Its Weight in Gold?

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