Affordable Cancer Care

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Session 1 – AFFORDABLE CANCER CARE – CURRENT STATUS

Session 1 brought forth various points and recommendations that could make cancer care affordable. We went from insurance concerns, policy changes, early detection, screening, to banning tobacco. We found out that nearly 70% of our cancer burden could be preventable. Finally, we concluded that insurance and banning tobacco could lead to decrease in cost…

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Community based Cancer Care

Is this the model to follow? Community oncology clinics are closing or being acquired by hospitals at a swift pace and they are looking hard at the reasons why that’s the case, what makes sense financially and how it impacts the patient. It was argued that the site of care matters a lot and…

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Medical devices in cancer care

A look into the current situation of the Indian manufacturing capabilities The total market for diagnostic and medical equipment in India is worth about $3.5 billion and is expanding at an annual rate of 18%. While some “top of the line” Western device companies can sell their triple-A products to private Indian hospitals, most public…

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Financial challenges for an Indian Cancer Patient

According to a July 2011 paper by the Indian Statistical Institute, the average cost of cancer care per patient in a government hospital (the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi) amounted to Rs 36,812. And reports suggested that in private hospitals, the cost of cancer treatment ranged between Rs 2 to 8…

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Cancer Research in India

Cancer research in India has grown extensively over the last two decades, both in terms of size and impact. Government and state policy makers, scientists and clinicians in India have vigorously supported cancer research from studies to achieve large-scale health outcomes using low-tech solutions to areas of highly advanced cancer science. However, there remain many…