Income and Cancer Overdiagnosis - When Too Much Care Is Harmful

N Engl J Med. 2017 Jun 8;376(23):2208-2209. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp1615069.

Authors

H Gilbert Welch¹, Elliott S Fisher¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Dartmouth Institute of Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Geisel School of Medicine, Hanover, NH.

PMID: 28591536
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1615069

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Early Detection of Cancer
Healthcare Disparities / economics*
Humans
Incidence
Income*
Medical Overuse / economics*
Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Neoplasms / epidemiology
Neoplasms / mortality
SEER Program
United States / epidemiology