Financial toxicity of cancer treatment: Moving the discussion from acknowledgement of the problem to identifying solutions

Aakash Desai¹, Bishal Gyawali^{2

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine, University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT, USA.
² Department of Oncology, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.
³ Department of Public Health Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.
⁴ Division of Cancer Care and Epidemiology, Queen's Cancer Research Institute, Queen's University, 10 Stuart Street, Level 2, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada.

Aakash Desai et al. EClinicalMedicine. 2020.

. 2020 Jan 31:20:100269.

doi: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100269. eCollection 2020 Mar.

Aakash Desai¹, Bishal Gyawali^{2

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¹ Department of Medicine, University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT, USA.
² Department of Oncology, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.
³ Department of Public Health Sciences, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada.
⁴ Division of Cancer Care and Epidemiology, Queen's Cancer Research Institute, Queen's University, 10 Stuart Street, Level 2, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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