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Although there are many challenges to providing high-quality cancer care in low-resource settings, such as trained personnel at all levels, health care infrastructure, and reliable supply chains for essential supplies, the lack of affordable access to high-cost potentially life-saving medications remains a significant one, leading to countless preventable deaths worldwide. Although we are grateful for interventions such as one supported by Pfizer, the American Cancer Society, and the Clinton Health Access Initiative designed to improve affordability of some generic cancer drugs, given the potential availability of more costly but highly effective therapies, we see the value in a range of solutions.1 Some, though, have strongly voiced a repudiation of humanitarian donations in the context of global access to cancer treatment, claiming that it poses a dangerous precedent that may prevent us from saving the lives of hundreds of thousands of patients with cancer.2 Although long-term sustainable access to high-quality cancer care will only be achieved with a complex, comprehensive, multipronged approach that includes innovative social business models and affordable drugs and other services, the reality is that there are patients today being successfully treated for whom the only path to access is through humanitarian donations of medicines. Unless we define parameters for the role of humanitarian donations and accept them as an important and timely solution, albeit a partial one, thousands of lives will be needlessly lost.

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The Role of Humanitarian Donations in Decreasing Preventable Mortality From Cancer in Low-Income Countries: Models to Improve Access to Life-Saving Medicines