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. 2010 Mar 17;303(11):1086-7.
doi: 10.1001/jama.2010.283.

Cancer's next frontier: addressing high and increasing costs

Elena B Elkin  1 , Peter B Bach
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Cancer's next frontier: addressing high and increasing costs

Elena B Elkin et al. JAMA. .
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Nominal and inflation-adjusted direct medical spending attributed to cancer, 1990–2009. Direct costs are personal health care expenditures for hospital and nursing home care, drugs, home care, and physician and other professional services. Sources: 1990–1995 estimates from Brown et al.; 2000–2009 estimates are from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, based on data from multiple sources, applying the 1995 fraction of direct medical costs attributable to cancer to annual national health expenditure estimates.
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