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- Title
The Forest and the Trees: the Human Costs of Cancer.
- Authors
Kessler, Larry G.; Ramsey, Scott D.
- Abstract
The authors reflect on the time cost of medical care for cancer patients. They present the by phase, initial, continuing and last-year-of-life, treatment for cancer care. The focus is on colon cancer. An overview of the findings of the study conducted that estimate the medical care cost for the disease which aims to inform those responsible for the development of public policy regarding cancer, funding of the National Cancer Institute research in particular, is offered.
- Subjects
MEDICAL care costs; CANCER treatment; COLON cancer; MEDICAL innovations; NATIONAL Cancer Institute (U.S.)
- Publication
JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2007, Vol 99, Issue 1, p2
- ISSN
0027-8874
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1093/jnci/djk013