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Table 1 Frame condensate: The nine major frames of articles on cancer drugs and priority-setting issues in 8 largest Norwegian newspapers, 2013–2017

From: Reframing cancer: challenging the discourse on cancer and cancer drugs—a Norwegian perspective

No.

Frame condensate

1

Suffering and desperate patients denied life-saving medicines

2

The unjust health system that sees patients as numbers

3

The slow and inefficient priority-setting system takes the lives of patients as they wait for expensive drugs to be approved

4

The priority-setting system polarises Norwegian patients into rich vs. poor

5

The marginalisation of the elderly as the priority-setting system disfavours them

6

Irresponsible politicians damage the credibility of our priority-setting system

7

The inefficient priority-setting system which delays approval of new drugs

8

The birth of the polarised health system

9

The priority-setting system gives power to individuals not suited to wield it