A SWOG study estimates that implementation of findings from that group’s clinical trials has added 3.34 million years to the lives of cancer patients in the 60 years since its founding in 1956.
Multiple components of the healthcare and public health systems are currently under scrutiny. One of them is reportedly the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF: “Task Force”), established in 1984 and managed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. It was created to maintain an ongoing evaluation of disease prevention and screening interventions that...
