Washington State cancer patients found to be at greater risk for bankruptcy than people without a cancer diagnosis
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...The high cost of cancer treatment dubbed “financial toxicity”(110) has been associated with reduced spending on groceries and clothing, skipped medications and physician appointments to save money, bankruptcy, and mortality (111,112)....
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...Cancer patients, especially those under 65 years, have a higher bankruptcy rate compared to people who do not have cancer (Ramsey et al., 2013)....
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...Details of our approach to determining bankruptcy incidence among patients with cancer are available in Ramsey et al.1 To assess the association between bankruptcy filing and mortality, we used Cox regression models on a propensity score matched sample....
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...5 times more common in patients with cancer compared with those without cancer.(1) In addition, because bankruptcy represents the extreme end of a spectrum of financial hardship, it is possible that levels of financial difficulty short of bankruptcy could also influence survival....
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...5 times more likely to file for bankruptcy after a cancer diagnosis compared with individuals who have not been diagnosed with cancer.(1) The term financial toxicity has been coined in reference to the growing recognition that high out-of-pocket expenditures during cancer treatment are putting many families into severe financial distress and, in some cases, leading to refusal of treatment or nonadherence to recommended treatments....
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...Details of our approach to determining bankruptcy incidence among patients with cancer are available in Ramsey et al.(1) To assess the association between bankruptcy filing and mortality, we used Cox regression models on a propensity score matched sample....
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