Pill blister packs sit on a wooden table beside banknotes and credit cards
From next month, prodded by the findings of India’s supreme court, prices of 137 cancer drugs are expected to fall by up to 70%. Photograph: Rupendra Rawat/Alamy
From next month, prodded by the findings of India’s supreme court, prices of 137 cancer drugs are expected to fall by up to 70%. Photograph: Rupendra Rawat/Alamy
India slashes cost of cancer drugs after court rules mark-ups are ‘extortion’

Case filed in 2022 by patient unable to afford medicine leads to cap on drug prices for millions who face ruin if diagnosed