Cancer in Texas cost more than $13 billion in 1998, according to a study released in February by a group of researchers that included LBJ School Professor David Warner. The study, which examined the economic impact of the disease in the state, also looked at direct and indirect costs associated with four common cancers--colorectal, lung, breast, and prostate.

Funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through the Texas Comprehensive Cancer Control Coalition, the project results are published in three booklets. One of the booklets examines direct and indirect costs of the disease in 1998, another is a literature review and analysis of cancer prevention and cost effectiveness, and the third--produced in collaboration with the Texas Health Care Information Council--focuses on hospital inpatient costs of cancer.

Besides Warner, the research team included Lauren Rivera Jahnke (LBJ Class of 1997); Michael Johnsrud, UT Austin Center for Pharmaco-economic Studies; Zhongmin Li, Texas Health Care Information Council; Roy McCandless (LBJ Class of 1977), University of California, San Francisco; and LBJ School second-year student Sarah Widoff.

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May 14, 2001

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