Forum of Clinical Oncology (Dec 2015)

Healthcare access for cancer patients in the era of economic crisis. Results from the HOPE III study

  • Souliotis Kyriakos,
  • Agapidaki Eirini,
  • Papageorgiou Manto

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/fco-2015-0020
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 6, no. 4
pp. 7 – 11

Abstract

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Background: Despite the documentation of addressing healthcare disparities in detection and treatment of cancer and health outcomes for cancer patients, the inequalities persist. Cancer patients of several vulnerable groups suffer disproportionally the effect of economic crisis on health and healthcare.

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