A recent report has stated that in wealthy countries the cost of cancer care is becoming unsustainable.

A report was prepared by about 37 experts from countries that are developed on managing costs of cancer in OZ and the US.

According to the authors, cancer treatment in developed countries is now getting limited to the excess only. They said that cancer is often overdiagnosed, overtreated and there are many promises made that are too much. This leads to several surgeries, use of technology and getting drugs.

Professor Richard Sullivan from the King's Health Partners Integrated Cancer Centre in London and his co-authors from the Lancet Oncology Commission said that as population is ageing so are cancer patients increasing and so is the cost to treat cancer.

There are several GDPs that are devoted to health in developed countries but in a majority of countries, the percentage of the proportion of health-care spending directed to cancer care is between four to seven per cent.

The authors said, “The issue that concerns economists and policy makers is not just the amount of money currently spent on health, but also the rate of increase of health care spending.”