Cash for transport and food to stop families abandoning curative treatment
Many children and adults in poorer countries stop curable cancer treatment because families cannot afford the bus fare or food while in hospital. Small, reliable payments during treatment prevent this.
Treatment abandonment is the leading cause of treatment failure for childhood cancer in many LMICs, and is driven by transport cost, lost income, and lodging. Programmes providing conditional cash, transport vouchers, and family accommodation (in Central America, East Africa, and India) have cut abandonment dramatically at low cost. The proposal is to make an abandonment-prevention package a standard, funded component of every curative protocol in LMIC centres and to report abandonment as a quality indicator.
- Most of the world has almost no cancer care · Seven in ten cancer deaths happen in low- and middle-income countries, where radiotherapy, pathology, surgery and drugs are scarce.
- Patients lack understanding, navigation and agency · Most patients cannot understand their options, find trials, or push back, so decisions are made for them.
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