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Some Czech hospitals do not admit new cancer patients in reaction to a recent announcement by the General Health Insurance Company (VZP), the largest health insurer in the country, that money for oncological treatment has been exhausted, daily Mlada fronta Dnes (MfD) writes today.
A new unique book was released in March 2010 that representatively desribes recent status and future trends in Czech cancer care in the widest sense. The book entitled "Czech Cancer Care in Numbers 2008-2009" is written in English and was released by Grada Publishing.
Cancer patients with in the Czech Republic were treated in 2009 on the same medical level as those in the old EU member states. However, not all patients who would have needed it got to specialised centres, as Professor Jiri Vorlicek, President of the Czech Society for Oncology, told reporters today.
