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Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on September 23, 2008
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2008 100(19):1413-1414; doi:10.1093/jnci/djn289
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Published by Oxford University Press 2008.

CORRESPONDENCE

Response: Re: Cost of Care for the Elderly Cancer Patients in the United States

K. Robin Yabroff, Elizabeth B. Lamont, Joan L. Warren, Martin L. Brown

Affiliations of authors: Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD (KRY, JLW, MLB); Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (EBL)

Correspondence to: K. Robin Yabroff, PhD, MBA, Health Services and Economics Branch/Applied Research Program, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Executive Plaza North, Rm 4005, 6130 Executive Blvd, MSC 7344, Bethesda, MD 20892-7344 (e-mail: yabroffr@mail.nih.gov).

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We agree with the points raised by Balducci et al. in their correspondence and also by Balducci (1) that measures of physiological age, rather than just chronological age, are important in treatment decision-making and outcomes in elderly cancer patients. Our population-based estimates of the average cost of cancer care in the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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