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Correspondence on: ‘Patient reported medication-related problems, adherence and waste of oral anticancer medication over time’ by van den Bemt et al
  1. Jinming Cao,
  2. Zhicong Chen,
  3. Feng Xu
  1. Fengxian Hospital, Southern Medical University, Shanghai, China
  1. Correspondence to Professor Feng Xu; andrewfxu1998{at}gmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/ejhpharm-2024-004424

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    Hospital medication waste refers to unused drugs that expire over the entire medicine supply chain.1 This waste results in unnecessary healthcare spending and environmental harm. Generally, there is a medication waste issue in developed countries such as the Netherlands, as reported by van den Bemt et al.2 This commentary is derived from this work and focuses on oral anticancer medication waste in China.

    Because China is a developing country with a large population and vast territory, its medical resources are limited. China has a serious drug shortage problem and there should be no medication waste. Paradoxically, medication waste is a common phenomenon in China. At the end …

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    • Contributors Conception and draft writing: JC and ZC. Writing and revisions: FX. All the authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript.

    • Funding This work was supported by the China Medical Education Association Grant (CMEA2024001).

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.