Government Initiatives for Cancer Treatment in India
Published: Mar 30, 2016
Abstract: The central and state governments have been running several programmes to help cancer patients. Subsidised treatment and palliative care for cancer are already in place.The AMRIT venture is a step in the right direction to make expensive medicines affordable for patients nationwide.
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Measure of disease that allows us to determine a person's likelihood of having a disease. It is a statistical concept referring to the number of cases of a disease that are present in a particular population at a given time. Prevalence estimates are used by epidemi-ologists, health care providers, government agencies, and insurers.
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