Cancer, at times, feels like a typical Bollywood story, with a fight between ‘rich’ and ‘poor’. The gap between “Haves” and “Haven’ts’’. The equitable and affordable cancer care sounds like an utopian idea but is a desirable trait for any community or a nation. The above mentioned concepts are still a distant dream but the world is slowly catching up to it.
The disparity in cancer care on various levels is still an understudied and under-appreciated concept that is waiting for disruptive positive changes. Complex quagmire of various things like policies, finances, legislation, rules decide the disparity levels in each country and innovative changes would enable us to circumvent the problem to achieve and run towards ‘closing the gap’ that echoes the underlying theme of World Cancer Day. The diagnosis of cancer itself is a life threatening event for an individual, but the problem is…
