expert corner
Stronger approach needed
to make cancer treatment
accessible and affordable
Creating awareness to prevention and early detection will be critical to
a successful cancer care structure in the country, writes Praveen Bose
T
he
increasing
number
of cancer
cases in
India has
created a need for
new development and
trends in the field of
oncology drugs and
treatment. There is
a definite gap that
largely still needs to
be bridged. However,
the access to global
drugs, diagnostics tests
and therapy options
have increased in the
country over the past
one decade.
Globally, cancer is also
responsible for almost
one out of six deaths.
More than 14 million
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people develop cancer
every year, revealed
a statistics and it is
projected to rise to
at least 21 million by
2030. According to
a report by Indian
Council of Medical
Research, there will be
17.3 lakh (1.7 million)
new cases of cancer
in India with breast,
cervical and lung
cancers being the most
prominent by 2020.
There is an urgent
need of access
to effective and
affordable anticancer
medications in India.
Both the government
and the oncology
industry players need
to look for means to
make global trends
in cancer therapy
available to this
part of the world.
This can be done by
improving regulations,
bringing in world
class research based
drugs, diagnostics and
devices and by making
the whole spectrum
of treatment options
affordable to the
Indian population
New techniques
being adopted for the
treatment of cancer
With the increased
noise level in the
social and channel
media as well as
information explosion
through the internet,