Trends in Breast, Colorectal, and Cervical Cancer Incidence Following the Affordable Care Act: Implications for Cancer Screening

Maxine Sun; Alexander P Cole; Stuart L Lipsitz; Quoc-Dien Trinh

doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2017.3861

Trends in Breast, Colorectal, and Cervical Cancer Incidence Following the Affordable Care Act: Implications for Cancer Screening

JAMA Oncol. 2018 Jan 1;4(1):128-129. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2017.3861.

Authors

Maxine Sun^{1

2}, Alexander P Cole¹, Stuart L Lipsitz¹, Quoc-Dien Trinh¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Urological Surgery and Center for Surgery and Public Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
² Lank Center for Genitourinary Oncology, Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Abstract

This observational study uses incidence rates before and after adoption of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to assess whether adoption of the ACA increased screening for breast, colorectal, and cervical cancer.

Publication types

Observational Study

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Breast Neoplasms / diagnosis
Breast Neoplasms / economics
Breast Neoplasms / epidemiology*
Breast Neoplasms / pathology
Colorectal Neoplasms / diagnosis
Colorectal Neoplasms / economics
Colorectal Neoplasms / epidemiology*
Colorectal Neoplasms / pathology
Early Detection of Cancer* / economics
Early Detection of Cancer* / methods
Early Detection of Cancer* / statistics & numerical data
Early Detection of Cancer* / trends
Female
Humans
Incidence
Male
Middle Aged
Neoplasm Staging
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act* / economics
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act* / statistics & numerical data
United States / epidemiology
Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / diagnosis
Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / economics
Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / epidemiology*
Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / pathology
Young Adult