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Journal of the National Cancer Institute Advance Access originally published online on December 9, 2008
JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2008 100(24):1742-1743; doi:10.1093/jnci/djn434
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How Should We Value Lives Lost to Cancer?

Scott D. Ramsey

Affiliation of author: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA

Correspondence to: Scott D. Ramsey, MD, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, 1100 Fairview Ave North, M3-B232, Seattle, WA 98109-1024 (e-mail: sramsey@fhcrc.org).

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To be trained in medicine, nursing or one of the other "sharp end" disciplines and then be faced with some hard-nosed, cold-blooded economist placing money values on human life and suffering is an anathema to many (1).

Cancer is one of the most feared of all diseases. The toll it takes on society in terms of suffering and early mortality is well known. Why then should we try to place a dollar value on cancer, when its impact is so obvious to all of us? This issue of the Journal contains two articles that try to address this question while estimating the value of life lost due to cancer (2,3). The authors use approaches that economists have used for decades . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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