Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer
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Support Care Cancer · Sep 2007
Perceived cancer-related financial difficulty: implications for patient satisfaction with quality of life in advanced cancer.
Cancer and its treatment often lead to financial difficulty in patients with advanced cancer. The goal of this study was to investigate the relationship between perceived cancer-related financial difficulty and patient satisfaction with quality of life (QoL) in advanced cancer. ⋯ We found that perceived financial difficulty is strongly correlated with patient satisfaction with QoL in advanced cancer. These findings indicate a need for the providers of cancer care to be aware that nonclinical factors such as perceived financial difficulty can have an important bearing on QoL of cancer patients.