Open AccessDisparities in Access to Systemic Treatment for Breast Cancer in Thailand and Major Asian Territories
Author(s) -
Suthinee Ithimakin,
Napa Parinyanitikul,
SungBae Kim,
YoonSim Yap,
Janice Tsang,
I. Soong,
Yukinori Ozaki,
Shinji Ohno,
Makiko Ono,
Jack Junjie Chan,
Skye Hung-Chun Cheng,
Thitiya Dejthevaporn
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
journal of breast cancer/journal of breast cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 2092-9900
pISSN - 1738-6756
DOI - 10.4048/jbc.2022.25.e21
Subject(s) - reimbursement , medicine , family medicine , breast cancer , health care , cancer , economic growth , economics
Breast cancer (BC) treatment has shifted from chemotherapy to targeted therapy. Several targeted agents have demonstrated an improvement in survival. Given that national healthcare resources were correlated with the cancer mortality-to-incidence ratio, we compared access to BC drugs in Thailand with that in other Asian countries.