New NIH study projects survivorship and costs of cancer care based on changes in the US population and cancer trends Based on growth and aging of the U.S. population, medical expenditures for cancer in the year 2020 are projected to reach at least $158 billion (in 2010 dollars) – an increase of 27 percent over
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People with a history of smoking have a high risk of lung cancer – a disease with a five-year relative survival rate (for smokers and non-smokers combined) of only 15.8 percent. Previous attempts at developing a test to find lung cancer early, when it is easier to treat, have not been able to demonstrate a
Cancer care cost the American public $104.1 billion in 2006 – the most recent year for which statistics are available – according to NCI’s newly released Cancer Trends Progress Report-2009/2010 Update. The financial burden of cancer looms even larger, however, when you consider other costs, such as losses in time and economic productivity. In 2005, for
The Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer that was released todayshows continued declines in both the rate of new cancer cases (incidence) and the rate of cancer deaths (mortality) in the United States over the past several years. The report, which is produced by the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the Centers for Disease Control