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MATH and Tumors
Category: cancer
Tagged cancer, Edmund Mroz, Massachusetts General Hospital, MATH, tumor heterogeneity
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Is Cancer Care Worse in Poorer Neighborhoods?
Category: cancer
Tagged cancer, cancer outcomes, poverty, social deprivation, social determinants of cancer
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Cancer Care’s “Culture of Excess”
Category: cancer, Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, Healthcare
Tagged biomarkers, cancer, cancer care, cancer cost, complex adaptive systems, European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress, FiercePharma, incremental cost-effectiveness ratios, moral hazard, Richard Sullivan, The Huffington Post, The Lancet Oncology
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Jessica Wapner is a freelance writer focused mainly on biomedical issues. Her work is published in Scientific American, The New York Times, Slate, Science, Nature Medicine, and elsewhere. Her first book, The Philadelphia Chromosome is forthcoming from The Experiment in May 2013.