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The Costs and Effectiveness of Cervical Cancer Screening in Elderly Women
This paper examines what is known about the course of cervical cancer in elderly women; the effectiveness of the Pap test and its accuracy in this age group; the relative costs and effectiveness of different screening test schedules for elderly women; and the implications of these findings for Medicare.
Date:
February 1990
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United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
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The UNT Digital Library
Costs and Effectiveness of Colorectal Cancer Screening in the Elderly
In this paper OTA summarizes the evidence on the effectiveness and costs of colorectal cancer screening in the elderly and explores the implications for Medicare of offering this preventive technology as a Medicare benefit. Nowhere are the hard choices between potential medical benefits and high costs illustrated more clearly than with this cancer screening technology.
Date:
September 1990
Creator:
Wagner, Judith L.; Duffy, Brigitte; Wadhwa, Sandeep & Jakubowski, Lara
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The UNT Digital Library