Breast Cancer Patient Outcomes After Radiation Therapy Guideline Change

This dataset supports an analysis of radiation therapy's effects on mortality and economic outcomes for breast cancer patients in Denmark. The research employs a 2SLS strategy within a difference-in-differences framework, leveraging variation from a medical guideline change. It finds that ten years post-diagnosis, treatment increases employment by 37% and earnings by 45%.

Use Cases

• Analyze the impact of radiation therapy on patient mortality outcomes using the guideline change as an instrumental variable.
• Model the relationship between medical treatment and long-term employment rates for breast cancer patients.
• Estimate the effect of radiation therapy on patient earnings over a ten-year period following diagnosis.
• Investigate the reduction in the post-diagnosis employment drop attributable to treatment, as implied by the study's 70% figure.

Strengths

• Study is based on the entire population of breast cancer patients in Denmark, providing a comprehensive sample.
• Research design exploits a natural experiment from a medical guideline change for causal identification.
• Findings include specific quantitative results, such as a 37% increase in employment and a 45% increase in earnings ten years post-diagnosis.

Limitations

• Specific dataset details like row count, column names, and file formats are unknown.
• The data is geographically limited to Denmark, which may limit generalizability to other healthcare systems.
• The temporal coverage of the underlying patient data is not specified in the input.

Provenance

Source

ICPSR Harvested Dataverse

Collection Method

Data gathered to investigate effects using a 2SLS strategy within a difference-in-differences framework, exploiting variation from a medical guideline change.

Freshness

The metadata was last updated on 2026-02-23.

Geography

Denmark