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Evaluating access to essential medicines for treating childhood cancers: a medicines availability, price and affordability study in New Delhi, India.

Neha FaruquiAlexandra MartiniukAbhishek SharmaChanchal SharmaBhumika RathoreRamandeep Singh AroraRohina Joshi
Published in: BMJ global health (2019)
Most anti-neoplastic EMs are found in survey anchor areas, however, mean availability was less than non-cancer medicines; not meeting the WHO target of 80%. Medicine prices were relatively low in New Delhi compared with IRPs. However, the cost of chemotherapy medicines seems unaffordable in the local context.
Keyphrases
  • childhood cancer
  • papillary thyroid
  • cross sectional
  • squamous cell
  • radiation therapy
  • young adults
  • lymph node metastasis
  • rectal cancer