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We all want to believe that when people get cancer, they will receive medical care of the highest quality. Even as new scientific breakthroughs are an...
One of the barriers to improving the quality of cancer care in the United States is the inadequacy of data systems. Out-of-date or incomplete informat...
In our society's aggressive pursuit of cures for cancer, we have neglected symptom control and comfort care. Less than one percent of the National Can...
Cancer ranks second only to heart disease as a leading cause of death in the United States, making it a tremendous burden in years of life lost, patie...
In Meeting Psychosocial Needs of Women with Breast Cancer, the National Cancer Policy Board of the Institute of Medicine examines the psychosocial con...
Developing Technologies for the Early Detection of Breast Cancer
Each year more than 180,000 new cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in women in the U.S. If cancer is detected when small and local, treatment option...
Interpreting the Volume-Outcome Relationship in the Context of Cancer Care is a summary of a workshop held on May 11, 2000, which brought together exp...
An Approach to Measurement in Georgia
Shortly after 1998, leading members of Georgia's government, medical community, and public-spirited citizenry began considering ways in which some of ...
Summary and Recommendations
It is innately human to comfort and provide care to those suffering from cancer, particularly those close to death. Yet what seems self-evident at an ...
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An American Cancer Society and Institute of Medicine Symposium
This report is the summary of a symposium presented by the American Cancer Society (ACS) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to further disseminate th...
The successes that have been achieved in treating childhood cancers stand as beacons against the less dramatic improvements for adults with cancer. Pr...
Strategies for Improving Breast Cancer Detection and Diagnosis: A Breast Cancer Research Foundation and Institute of Medicine Symposium
In this report The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) present a one-day symposium that was held at the IOM t...
Workshop Summary
The National Cancer Policy Board and the Board on Science, Engineering, and Economic Policy convened a workshop in January 2004 on "Economic Models of...
A Public Workshop Summary
In November 1999, the Institute of Medicine, in consultation with the Commission on Life Sciences, the Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, a...
Improving Care and Quality of Life
Only more recently has it been realized that the intense effort to care for and cure a child with cancer does not end with survival. Continued surveil...
Mammography is an important tool for detecting breast cancer at an early stage. When coupled with appropriate treatment, early detection can reduce br...
We Can Take Better Care of People With Cancer
As a society, we have made amazing gains in being able to detect and treat cancer. Even so, about half the people who are told by their doctors that t...
What We Need to Know: Executive Summary
National expenditures for medical care in the months and days preceding death are enormous. But we do not know whether that money is buying good quali...
Strategies for Improving Breast Cancer Detection and Diagnosis
Building on the 2001 report Mammography and Beyond, this book not only examines ways to improve implementation and use of new and current breast cance...
The National Cancer Policy Board and the Board on Science, Engineering, and Economic Policy convened a workshop in January 2004 on รขโฌลEconomic Mod...
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