Availability, price and affordability of anticancer medicines in Jiangsu Province, China: a cross-sectional survey study

The availability of anticancer medicines in community pharmacies was low, especially in intravenous anticancer preparations. The Chinese government formulated a dual-channel policy to improve the availability of anticancer medicines in community pharmacies. However, implementing the dual-channel policy required the effective interaction and cooperation of the hospitals, community pharmacies, medical insurance, and other departments. The price of IAMs was still the main obstacle to receiving treatment for cancer patients; therefore, the government should further optimize the price of IAMs through various strategies to achieve a reasonable price. Expanding the coverage of EAMs was conducive to improving treatment affordability for cancer patients.

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Frontiers in Public Health
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2025-12-18
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https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1729325
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Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer
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Abstract

The availability of anticancer medicines in community pharmacies was low, especially in intravenous anticancer preparations. The Chinese government formulated a dual-channel policy to improve the availability of anticancer medicines in community pharmacies. However, implementing the dual-channel policy required the effective interaction and cooperation of the hospitals, community pharmacies, medical insurance, and other departments. The price of IAMs was still the main obstacle to receiving treatment for cancer patients; therefore, the government should further optimize the price of IAMs through various strategies to achieve a reasonable price. Expanding the coverage of EAMs was conducive to improving treatment affordability for cancer patients.

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Nanjing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital (CN), Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CN), Nanjing Municipal Center for Disease Control And Prevention (CN), Nanjing Second Hospital (CN), Changzhou No.2 People's Hospital (CN), The Fifth People’s Hospital of Suzhou (CN), Nanjing Medical University (CN)
National Science Foundation, Japan Society of Physiological Anthropology, Jiangsu Pharmaceutical Association, National Natural Science Foundation of China
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