{"id":987522203,"date":"2021-11-12T03:14:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T02:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/the-philippines-established-the-cancer-assistance-fund\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T09:51:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T08:51:55","slug":"the-philippines-established-the-cancer-assistance-fund","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/the-philippines-established-the-cancer-assistance-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"The Philippines established the cancer assistance fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span><span><span>In Philippines, the Department of Health has established the cancer assistance fund to support the Cancer and Supportive-Palliative Medicines Access Program (CSPMAP). <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>The CSPMAP will provide free medicines to cancer patients, aiming to reduce the out-of-the pocket expenditures of cancer patients as well as their families. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>The CSPMAP covers eight types of cancer: 1) breast cancer, 2) childhood cancers, 3) gynecologic cancers, 4) liver cancer, colorectal cancer and other digestive tract cancers, 5) adult blood cancers (leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma), 6) head-neck-thyroid cancers, 7) lung cancer and 8) prostate and urinary bladder cancer. To read more, please <a href=\"https:\/\/doh.gov.ph\/press-release\/DOH-LEADS-NATIONAL-LUNG-CANCER-AWARENESS-MONTH-FREE-MEDICINES-AVAILABLE-NATIONWIDE\">click<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Source:&nbsp;Department of Health,&nbsp;Philippines<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><span><span>Picture by&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/44804\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PDPics<\/a>&nbsp;from&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pixabay.com\/photos\/390322\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Philippines, the Department of Health has established the cancer assistance fund to support the Cancer and Supportive-Palliative Medicines Access Program (CSPMAP). The CSPMAP will provide free medicines to cancer patients, aiming to reduce the out-of-the pocket expenditures of cancer patients as well as their families. The CSPMAP covers eight types of cancer: 1) breast&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":987528524,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987522203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987522203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987528524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987522203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987522203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987522203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}