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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Environment and Wallet Benefit From Redispensing Oral Cancer Medications

By SPC News Staff

Redispensing oral cancer medications reduces not only medical costs but the environmental impact, according to research from Radboudumc pharmacy. The annual savings could amount to tens of millions of dollars (JAMA Oncol 2024;10[1]:87-94).

Patients do not always use all their oral cancer medications. The drugs are mostly expensive and environmentally damaging, both in production and waste disposal. In her doctoral research, Lisa-Marie Smale, of Radboudumc, in the Netherlands,