Are life-saving anticancer drugs reaching all patients? Patterns and discrepancies of trastuzumab use in the European Union and the USA.

Felipe AdesChristelle SenterreDimitrios ZardavasEvandro de AzambujaRazvan PopescuMartine Piccart

Published in: PloS one (2017)

Significant differences in trastuzumab procurement are observed between Western Europe, the USA and Eastern Europe, with the latter geographic region acquiring insufficient amounts of the drug required to treat all patients in need.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
peritoneal dialysis
emergency department
drug induced
tyrosine kinase