The amount of money that a group of people collectively spends on saving one life from risk is called Value of Statistical Life (VOSL) [12].
In order to save one life from cervical cancer, the research found, 1,000 women would need to be screened for 35 years.
He is, to his credit, less emotive than the likes of Turner, although he did offer up this telling argument for the helmet law: If you just save one life, or save one life from being blighted, it's worth it.
The One Life From the time we are in elementary school, people ask us what we want to be when we grow up.
42 Similar findings have been observed in the context of breast cancer screening, where the trade-off is phrased in terms of the number of false positives considered acceptable to save one life from cancer.
13 14 Tolerance of false-positive results also seems high, with one US study finding that even among women who had experienced a false-positive mammogram, a third believed that it would be acceptable for 10 000 women or more to have false-positive results to save one life from breast cancer.
