[News] The global preventable cost of cancer drug wastage

Cancer chemotherapy is often too expensive for an individual patient to bear, considering the frequency of administration usually required. However, health institutions observe cancer drug wastage as a worldwide problem contributing to exorbitant health-care costs. According to Sandeep Nayak, Founder and Chief Surgical Oncologist at MACS Clinic, Bengaluru, India, many cancer drugs in single-use vials hold too much medication for most patients. For drugs whose dosage is based on a patient’s weight or body size, unused leftovers must be discarded.