Department of Internal Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Department of Oncology, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada.
Trends Cancer. 2023 May;9(5):373-375. doi: 10.1016/j.trecan.2023.01.006. Epub 2023 Feb 23.
Many cancer treatments impose large time investments on patients. We have termed these time burdens 'time toxicity' and have urged their consideration as adverse events of treatment. Here, we discuss time toxicity measures while considering inequitable access to healthcare, time as a resource, and patterns of time toxicity.
许多癌症治疗方案需要患者投入大量时间。我们将这些时间负担称为“时间毒性”,并敦促将其视为治疗的不良事件。在这里,我们讨论时间毒性的衡量标准,同时考虑到医疗保健的不平等获取、时间作为一种资源以及时间毒性的模式。