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Years of life lost (YLL) from cancer is an important measure of population burden – and should be considered when allocating research funds

Recently, cancer mortality has been compared to research spending by the National Cancer Research Institute (NCRI), whose research budget is approximately £250 million. The analysis shows a mis-match between mortality and research spending. As well as crude mortality rates, other measures of cancer...

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Autores principales: Burnet, N G, Jefferies, S J, Benson, R J, Hunt, D P, Treasure, F P
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2361853/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15655548
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/sj.bjc.6602321