• 1. Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100730, P.R.China;
  • 2. Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100730, P.R.China;
  • 3. Institute of Blood Transfusion, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Chengdu, 610052, P.R.China;
  • 4. National Institute of Geriatrics, Beijing Hospital, Beijing, 100730, P.R.China;
  • 5. School of Public Health, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, 100730, P.R.China;
SUN Jing, Email: sunjing@sph.pumc.edu.cn
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Malignant tumors are the major diseases which threat human beings. Anti-cancer medicines play important roles in the treatment of malignant tumors, especially for the new targeted therapies. They bring the life hope for cancer patients who were sentenced to death, and improve quality of life, and some patients may achieve normal lifetime. However, the new anti-cancer medicines are usually too expensive to afford, and most of them have not yet been included in Chinese public health security system, the accessibility of the new anti-cancer medicines is seriously limited. This paper introduces the accessibility of high-cost anti-cancer medicines in China, analyzes the influence factors, and proposes policy recommendations to improve the accessibility of high-cost anti-cancer medicines in China.

Citation: ZHOU Yanping, WANG Haigang, HU Qinghe, ZHOU Runshi, CHENG Lishan, KANG Fenheng, SUN Jing. Accessibility of high-cost anti-cancer medicines in China. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2017, 17(7): 862-868. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.201703028 Copy

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