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. 2012 Mar 5;30(10):1072–1079. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2011.35.6758

Fig 1.

Fig 1.

All-cause and cancer-specific mortality. Kaplan-Meier survival curves in Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and fee-for-service (FFS) –Medicare patients are shown. Curves were adjusted by using standardized mortality ratio (SMR) propensity weights. SMR-weighted effects estimate survival rates that a typical VHA patient would experience under FFS Medicare. (A) All-cause survival rates in patients with colon cancer. Adjusted median survival was 49 months in VHA patients versus 43 months in FFS-Medicare patients. (B) Cancer-specific survival rates in patients with colon cancer. (C) All-cause survival rates in patients with non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The adjusted median survival was 8 months in VHA patients versus 6 months in FFS-Medicare patients. (D) Cancer-specific survival rates in patients with NSCLC.