{
  "id": 16908921,
  "title": "Will the price caps on cancer drugs help bring down the cost of treatment?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/28/will-the-price-caps-on-cancer-drugs-help-bring-down-the-cost-of-16908921",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-28T13:57:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hindu - Sci-Tech",
    "slug": "the-hindu-sci-tech",
    "url": "https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/health/will-the-price-caps-on-cancer-drugs-help-bring-down-the-cost-of-treatment/article71634327.ece"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "For cancer patients in India, the struggle to stay alive is as much about the disease as about the arithmetic of fighting it. Experts call the government’s price caps a tokenistic, short-term measure. Patients will not benefit unless structural changes including tackling pricing at the manufacturing end, and large-scale government procurement to stabilise prices are put in place Will capping…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}