Colon Cancer

Comparison of patients' access to new and better cancer drugs reveals inequalities between countries

Published in Cancer Weekly, May 22nd, 2007

Patients around the world face stark inequalities in access to cancer treatment, according to a report published in the cancer journal, Annals of Oncology. The report's authors urge decision makers in every country to take action and ensure that everyone has equal access to new cancer drugs when they are needed, wherever they live.

The report by Dr Nils Wilking, clinical oncologist at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, and Dr Bengt Jönsson, director of the Centre for Health Economics at the Stockholm School of Economics, updates and improves on an earlier report by the same authors published in 2005.

The new report covers 25 countries,...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2007-05-22)

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