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Will the price caps on cancer drugs help bring down the cost of treatment?

For cancer patients in India, the struggle to stay alive is as much about the disease as about the arithmetic of fighting it. Experts call the government’s price…

Will the price caps on cancer drugs help bring down the cost of treatment?
Will the price caps on cancer drugs help bring down the cost of treatment? — image via The Hindu Health feed — Credit: Storywire

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For cancer patients in India, the struggle to stay alive is as much about the disease as about the arithmetic of fighting it. Experts call the government’s price caps a tokenistic, short-term measure. Patients will not benefit unless structural changes including tackling pricing at the manufacturing end, and large-scale government procurement to stabilise prices are…

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