The future cost of cancer in South Africa: An interdisciplinary cost management strategy
The exponential rise in cancer costs in South Africa (SA) was illustrated in a recent Sunday Times article entitled ‘The cost of cancer can be a debt sentence’. Our Minister of Health talks of a ‘war’ against the high costs of cancer drugs, and epidemiologists project a sharply rising incidence. Emi...
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2016
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| author | Sartorius, K Sartorius, B Govender, PS Sharma, V Sherriff, A |
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| description | The exponential rise in cancer costs in South Africa (SA) was illustrated in a recent Sunday Times article entitled ‘The cost of cancer can be a debt sentence’. Our Minister of Health talks of a ‘war’ against the high costs of cancer drugs, and epidemiologists project a sharply rising incidence. Eminent international medical journals, such as The Lancet, underline the fact that cancer cost is a growing international problem that confronts even the richest countries. If richer countries in the world are battling to cover the costs of cancer, what is the prognosis for SA?
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:2346447f-4c08-4edd-a0f0-fd19110abb342022-03-26T11:43:33ZThe future cost of cancer in South Africa: An interdisciplinary cost management strategyJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_b239uuid:2346447f-4c08-4edd-a0f0-fd19110abb34EnglishSymplectic ElementsHealth and Medical Publishing Group2016Sartorius, KSartorius, BGovender, PSSharma, VSherriff, AThe exponential rise in cancer costs in South Africa (SA) was illustrated in a recent Sunday Times article entitled ‘The cost of cancer can be a debt sentence’. Our Minister of Health talks of a ‘war’ against the high costs of cancer drugs, and epidemiologists project a sharply rising incidence. Eminent international medical journals, such as The Lancet, underline the fact that cancer cost is a growing international problem that confronts even the richest countries. If richer countries in the world are battling to cover the costs of cancer, what is the prognosis for SA? |
| spellingShingle | Sartorius, K Sartorius, B Govender, PS Sharma, V Sherriff, A The future cost of cancer in South Africa: An interdisciplinary cost management strategy |
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