Financial toxicity in cancer care: origins, impact, and solutions

HR Abrams, S Durbin, CX Huang… - Translational …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Financial toxicity describes the financial burden and distress that can arise for patients, and
their family members, as a result of cancer treatment. It includes direct out-of-pocket costs for …

Patient preferences for treatment outcomes in oncology with a focus on the older patient—a systematic review

PAL Seghers, A Wiersma, S Festen, ME Stegmann… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary In oncology, treatment outcomes can be competing, which means that one
treatment could benefit one outcome, like survival, and negatively influence another, like …

Financial toxicity among patients with breast cancer worldwide: a systematic review and meta-analysis

AN Ehsan, CA Wu, A Minasian, T Singh… - JAMA network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Financial toxicity (FT) is the negative impact of cost of care on financial well-
being. Patients with breast cancer are at risk for incurring high out-of-pocket costs given the …

Importance of quality‐of‐life priorities and preferences surrounding treatment decision making in patients with cancer and oncology clinicians

CP Williams, E Miller‐Sonet, RD Nipp, AH Kamal… - Cancer, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background Shared decision‐making (SDM) occurs when a patient partners with their
oncologist to integrate personal preferences and values into treatment decisions. A key …

[HTML][HTML] Natural language processing for automated classification of qualitative data from interviews of patients with cancer

C Fang, N Markuzon, N Patel, JD Rueda - Value in Health, 2022 - Elsevier
Objectives This study sought to explore the use of novel natural language processing (NLP)
methods for classifying unstructured, qualitative textual data from interviews of patients with …

[HTML][HTML] Progression-free survival and quality of life in metastatic breast cancer: The patient perspective

S Mertz, C Benjamin, C Girvalaki, A Cardone, P Gono… - The Breast, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction Treatment advances for metastatic breast cancer (mBC) have improved overall
survival (OS) in some mBC subtypes; however, there remains no cure for mBC. Considering …

[HTML][HTML] Bringing personal perspective elicitation to the heart of shared decision-making: A scoping review

EA Rake, ICH Box, D Dreesens, MJ Meinders… - Patient Education and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Objectives Proponents of shared decision-making (SDM) advocate the elicitation of the
patient's perspective. This scoping review explores if, and to what extent, the personal …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer as a new chronic disease: Oncology nursing in the 21st Century

E Pituskin - Canadian OnCOlOgy nursing JOurnal, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Americans will be diagnosed with cancer at some point of their lifetimes (Brenner et al.,
2020). With improved screening, detection and treatments, the number of survivors is …

Health care‐related time costs in patients with metastatic breast cancer

GB Rocque, CP Williams, SA Ingram… - Cancer …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background Burdens related to time spent receiving cancer care may be substantial for
patients with incurable, life‐limiting cancers such as metastatic breast cancer (MBC) …

Quality of life and treatment-related side effects in patients with HR+/HER2− advanced breast cancer: findings from a multicountry survey

F Cardoso, J Rihani, V Harmer, N Harbeck… - The …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Quality of life (QOL) is a critical factor in decision-making for advanced breast
cancer (ABC). There is a need to improve how QOL and treatment-related side effects (SEs) …