Oncology

Over the past few decades Cancer has emerged as a major public health concern worldwide. Cancer is the second leading cause of deaths that takes place worldwide. Every sixth death is due to cancer, and in 2018 was estimated to be responsible for 9.6 million deaths. Costing people quality of lives and eventually leading to death, if not treated timely, the cost of the treatment of cancer is another problem that patients and their caretakers deal with. Even though there exists better healthcare insurance policies in developed countries, out of pocket expenditure incurred in the treatment is again high. As per WHO, “The total annual economic cost of cancer in 2010 was es...