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Cancer Survival: An International Comparison of Outcomes

PEMD-94-5 Published: Mar 07, 1994. Publicly Released: Mar 07, 1994.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO compared the survival of patients from the United States and from the Canadian province of Ontario diagnosed with selected forms of cancer and considered some of the factors possibly contributing to the observed results.

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