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Most cancer patients in India reel under the pressure of expensive treatment. The very diagnosis of this incurable disease spells worries for a cancer patients family. What hits them even harder is the exorbitant amount of money charged by the pharma companies for the drugs that are crucial for a cancer patients survival at an advanced stage.
Most American pharma companies producing and selling these drugs in India have a patent over them. The patients have no choice but to pay the market price since none of the Indian companies are producing those medicines here. Although the Indian government does provides free / subsidized treatment at the cancer centres, a patient has to go for expensive advanced-level treatment to increase his chances of survival.
CNN-IBN citizen journalist Tanweer Alam brings up the plight of the middle-class families of cancer patients in India—who battle death, cancer and the financial crunch of an expensive life-saving treatmen
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