Determinants of completion of cancer directed treatment: an experience from a rural cancer centre, Sangrur, Punjab state, India.
India
cancer care
declining cancer treatment
registry
rural health care
treatment compliance
Journal
Ecancermedicalscience
ISSN: 1754-6605
Titre abrégé: Ecancermedicalscience
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101392236
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2021
2021
Historique:
received:
05
05
2021
entrez:
20
1
2022
pubmed:
21
1
2022
medline:
21
1
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
In low and middle-income countries, access to cancer diagnosis and treatment is suboptimal. Further, compliance to cancer treatment is a major issue due to various reasons including financial barriers, lack of family support and fear of treatment. This article discusses the determinants of treatment completion in cancer patients of a government-run hospital, in a rural part of Punjab in India. The Sangrur hospital-based cancer registry data for the year 2018 have been used. We have registered 2,969 cancer cases, out of which 2,528 (85%) cases were eligible for the analysis. Of the total 2,528 cases, 1,362 (54%) cases completed the cancer directed treatment and 1,166 (46%) did not. The data have been collected from the electronic medical record (EMR) department and entered into
Identifiants
pubmed: 35047064
doi: 10.3332/ecancer.2021.1313
pii: can-15-1313
pmc: PMC8723738
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
1313Informations de copyright
© the authors; licensee ecancermedicalscience.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
There were no conflicts of interest.
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