Here are four things to know:
- Researchers from Houston-based University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memphis, Tenn.-based St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Portland-based Oregon Health & Science University analyzed data from the CDC and the National Cancer Institute to compare changes in cancer survival and mortality in specific age ranges.
- The Dependent Care Expansion-eligible age range data (ages 19-25) was compared to younger (12-18) and older (26-32) age range data.
- Within six years of the ACA, the cancer survival rate change among the DCE-eligible age group was 2.6 times higher than the younger and 3.9 times higher than the older age group survival rates.
- For the same time period, the cancer death rate for the DCE-eligible age group was 2.1 times more improved than the younger and 1.5 times more improved than the older age group death rates.
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