Addressing Cancer Financial Hardship Begins With Comprehensive Assessment of Patient Economic Burden

Affiliations

¹ Section of Cancer Economics and Policy, Department of Health Services Research, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
² Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, and the Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.

Editorial

Ya-Chen Tina Shih et al. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2021.

. 2021 Nov 29;113(12):1606-1607.

doi: 10.1093/jnci/djab193.

¹ Section of Cancer Economics and Policy, Department of Health Services Research, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
² Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, and the Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA.

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Comment on

Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, Part 2: Patient Economic Burden Associated With Cancer Care.
Yabroff KR, Mariotto A, Tangka F, Zhao J, Islami F, Sung H, Sherman RL, Henley SJ, Jemal A, Ward EM. Yabroff KR, et al. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2021 Nov 29;113(12):1670-1682. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djab192. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2021. PMID: 34698839 Free PMC article.

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