Local Sociocultural Practice Specific Financial Toxicity Assessment Tool for Cancer: An Emerging Need

Parth Sharma; Muttacaud Ramakrishnan Rajagopal; Enrique Soto-Perez-de-Celis; Charmaine Blanchard; Deepak Sudhakaran; Aju Mathew

doi:10.1200/GO.24.00039

Local Sociocultural Practice Specific Financial Toxicity Assessment Tool for Cancer: An Emerging Need

JCO Glob Oncol. 2024 Mar:10:e2400039. doi: 10.1200/GO.24.00039.

Authors

Parth Sharma¹, Muttacaud Ramakrishnan Rajagopal¹, Enrique Soto-Perez-de-Celis¹, Charmaine Blanchard¹, Deepak Sudhakaran¹, Aju Mathew¹

Affiliation

¹ Parth Sharma, MBBS, Association for Socially Applicable Research (ASAR), Pune, India, Department of Community Medicine, Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India; Muttacaud Ramakrishnan Rajagopal, MD, MBBS, Trivandrum Institute of Palliative Sciences, Trivandrum, India; Enrique Soto-Perez-de-Celis, MD, PhD, FASCO, Departamento de Geriatría, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico; Charmaine Blanchard, MBBCh, MPhil, PD Dip Pall Med, Centre for Palliative Care, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Strengthening Oncology Services Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Deepak Sudhakaran, MD, MBBS, Trivandrum Institute of Palliative Sciences, Trivandrum, India; and Aju Mathew, MD, DM, MBBS, MPhil, MOSC Medical College, Kolenchery, India.

Abstract

It is relevant to study the financial toxicity of cancer to address it. However, the existing tools fail to capture the financial destruction of cancer on patients and their families in resource-limited countries. The authors discuss the need for a new tool in this article.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Financial Stress*
Humans
Neoplasms* / diagnosis
Neoplasms* / therapy

Grants and funding

R01 CA250012/CA/NCI NIH HHS/United States