Journal article : Editorial
The future cost of cancer in South Africa: An interdisciplinary cost management strategy
- Abstract:
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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...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Reviewed (other)
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Health and Medical Publishing Group Publisher's website
- Journal:
- South African Medical Journal Journal website
- Volume:
- 106
- Issue:
- 10
- Pages:
- 949-950
- Publication date:
- 2016-09-06
- Acceptance date:
- 2016-08-17
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2078-5135
- ISSN:
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0256-9574
- Pmid:
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27725010
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- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Subtype:
- Editorial
- Pubs id:
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1160821
- Local pid:
- pubs:1160821
- Deposit date:
- 2021-03-05
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- Copyright holder:
- K Sartorius et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2016
- Rights statement:
- This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons licence CC-BY-NC 4.0.
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