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.
JCO Glob Oncol. 2024 Mar;10:e2400039. doi: 10.1200/GO.24.00039.
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.
研究癌症的财务毒性以解决它是相关的。然而，现有的工具未能在资源有限的国家捕捉到癌症对患者及其家庭的财务破坏。作者在本文中讨论了需要一种新工具的必要性。
