Economic cost of cancer mortality is high in US, regardless of how cost is measured
Tuesday, December 9, 2008 - 17:56
in Health & Medicine
The economic cost of death due to cancer is high in the United States, regardless of whether researchers estimate the economic impact in lost work productivity or in a more global measure using the value of one year of life, according to two studies published online December 9 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.