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Building the financial case for treating childhood cancer in resource‐limited settings
Author(s) -
Bhakta Nickhill
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.32009
Subject(s) - medicine , childhood cancer , cancer , low and middle income countries , cancer treatment , lymphoma , limited resources , intensive care medicine , developing country , economic growth , risk analysis (engineering) , pathology , economics
For children diagnosed with cancer, the cost of delivering treatment services has, until recently, been largely assumed as too expensive and not cost‐effective, with little to no evidence from low‐ and middle‐income countries to support these assumptions. In this issue of Cancer , Denburg et al have demonstrated that the treatment costs associated with pediatric Burkitt lymphoma care in Uganda are surprisingly modest and very cost‐effective.