title: How should we value lives lost to cancer?
authors.forename: Scott D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Ramsey
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000191:economics / Q000401:mortality; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000191:economics / Q000401:mortality; D017281:Cost of Illness; D004526:Efficiency; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006291:Health Policy; D006701:Home Nursing / Q000191:economics; D006796:Household Work / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D015993:Life Tables; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000191:economics / Q000401:mortality; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000191:economics* / Q000401:mortality* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000628:therapy; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000191:economics; D011322:Primary Prevention / Q000191:economics; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000191:economics / Q000401:mortality; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D026712:Value of Life / Q000191:economics