Availability and affordability of anticancer medicines in Iran based on WHO/HAI standard survey methods.

Mehdi VarmaghaniSepideh ElyasiMohammad M MojahedianVahid GhavamiBehnam BorhaniJavad Javan-NoughabiShirin Sarafraz

Published in: Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (2022)

Unaffordability of cancer medicines can lead to treatment abandonment and increase inequality in access to healthcare services. Therefore, this requires immediate attention of policy makers to be planned in order to ensure to reducing the costs of medicines for patients and increasing patient access to anticancer medicines.

Keyphrases

healthcare
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
mental health
public health
primary care
prognostic factors
case report
young adults
social media