Abstract Each year, the American Cancer Society estimates the number of new cancer cases
and deaths expected in the United States in the current year and compiles the most recent …

Importance The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is updating its 2013 lung
cancer screening guidelines, which recommend annual screening for adults aged 55 …

Background. Microsimulation models (MSMs) for health outcomes simulate individual event
histories associated with key components of a disease process; these simulated life histories …

Background We used modeling techniques to assess the relative and absolute contributions
of screening mammography and adjuvant treatment to the reduction in breast-cancer …

A Correction has been published for this article in Statistics in Medicine 2001; 20: 655. The
identification of changes in the recent trend is an important issue in the analysis of cancer …

Abstract Background The American Cancer Society (ACS), the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), and the North American …

Background Current estimates of the costs of cancer care in the United States are based on
data from 2003 and earlier. However, incidence, survival, and practice patterns have been …

Background: Overdiagnosis of clinically insignificant prostate cancer is considered a major
potential drawback of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening. Quantitative estimates of …

Background Lung cancer is made up of distinct subtypes, including non–small-cell lung
cancer (NSCLC) and small-cell lung cancer (SCLC). Although overall mortality from lung …

An initial analysis of data from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology,
and End Results (SEER) registries shows that the age-adjusted incidence rate of breast …