Determining the impact of Medicaid expansion on cancer burden

Affiliations

¹ Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
² Institute of Health and Aging, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
³ Collective Health Inc, San Francisco, California.

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Hala T Borno et al. Cancer. 2020.

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. 2020 Sep 15;126(18):4114-4117.

doi: 10.1002/cncr.33039. Epub 2020 Jul 6.

¹ Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
² Institute of Health and Aging, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California.
³ Collective Health Inc, San Francisco, California.

No abstract available

Keywords: Medicaid expansion; affordable care act; cancer burden; cancer disparities; health policy.

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