How palliative care teams can mitigate financial toxicity in cancer care

The disruption to patient and family well-being introduced by the rising costs of cancer care is a growing clinical problem. In addition to logistical questions, there is a compelling, existential one: “How should healthcare teams address patient and caregiver distress and uncertainty from financial...

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Autores principales: Sedhom, Ramy, MacNabb, Lindsey, Smith, Thomas J., Yabroff, K. Robin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8121490/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33990880
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00520-021-06288-5
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description The disruption to patient and family well-being introduced by the rising costs of cancer care is a growing clinical problem. In addition to logistical questions, there is a compelling, existential one: “How should healthcare teams address patient and caregiver distress and uncertainty from financial toxicity?” We argue that the principles and practice of palliative care can help alleviate this element and often unaddressed component of human suffering.
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spelling pubmed-81214902021-05-17 How palliative care teams can mitigate financial toxicity in cancer care Sedhom, Ramy MacNabb, Lindsey Smith, Thomas J. Yabroff, K. Robin Support Care Cancer Commentary The disruption to patient and family well-being introduced by the rising costs of cancer care is a growing clinical problem. In addition to logistical questions, there is a compelling, existential one: “How should healthcare teams address patient and caregiver distress and uncertainty from financial toxicity?” We argue that the principles and practice of palliative care can help alleviate this element and often unaddressed component of human suffering. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021-05-14 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8121490/ /pubmed/33990880 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00520-021-06288-5 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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