“Cancer patients give up treatment for money,” urgency to shorten registration procedure

It was criticized that it is urgent to shorten a period to register the anticancer drugs’ health insurance benefit in Korea, which is the worst compared to other OECD member countries.

Seung-Taek Oh, a professor at Catholic University of Korea College of Medicine, proposed the problem at the ‘Policy Forum to Relieve Financial Difficulties of Canter Patient’s Family’ conducted by Saenuri Party...