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An analysis of discrepancies between United Kingdom cancer research funding and societal burden and a comparison to previous and United States values

BACKGROUND: Ideally, the allocation of research funding for each specific type of cancer should be proportional to its societal burden. This burden can be estimated with the metric ‘years of life lost’ (YLL), which combines overall mortality and age at death. METHODS: Using United Kingdom data from...

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Autores principales: Carter, Ashley J. R., Delarosa, Beverly, Hur, Hannah
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4629288/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26526609
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12961-015-0050-7