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The future cost of cancer in South Africa: An interdisciplinary cost management strategy

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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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Published
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Reviewed (other)

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10.7196/samj.2016.v106i10.11375

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MSD
Department:
NDM
Sub department:
Tropical Medicine
Role:
Author
ORCID:
0000-0001-6761-2325
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:
2078-5135
ISSN:
0256-9574
Pmid:
27725010
Language:
English
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Subtype:
Editorial
Pubs id:
1160821
Local pid:
pubs:1160821
Deposit date:
2021-03-05

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