Informing Canada’s Cancer Drug Funding Decisions with Scientific Evidence and Patient Perspectives: The Pan-Canadian Oncology Drug Review

Hoch, J.S.; Sabharwal, M.

doi:10.3747/co.20.1315

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Editorial

1 April 2013

4 Pages

Informing Canada’s Cancer Drug Funding Decisions with Scientific Evidence and Patient Perspectives: The Pan-Canadian Oncology Drug Review

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Pharmacoeconomics Research Unit, Cancer Care Ontario, and Canadian Centre for Applied Research in Cancer Control, Toronto, ON, Canada

Pan-Canadian Oncology Drug Review, Toronto, ON, Canada

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Curr. Oncol.2013, 20(2), 121-124;https://doi.org/10.3747/co.20.1315

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JSH: In July 2011, the pan-Canadian Oncology Drug Review [pcodr (http://www.pcodr.ca/)] began accepting submissions by pharmaceutical manufacturers and clinician-based tumour groups to have cancer drugs reimbursed by provincial payers in Canada. Doesn’t Canada already have a body reviewing drugs? [...]

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