ArticleSupportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer2017
Counting the cost of cancer: out-of-pocket payments made by colorectal cancer survivors.
Article in Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 6 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
17 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Prevalence and determinants of financial toxicity in patients with colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.International journal for equity in health · 2026Pooled it
- Subjective and objective financial toxicity among colorectal cancer patients: a systematic review.BMC cancer · 2024Pooled it
- Describing financial toxicity among cancer patients in different income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2023Pooled it
- Experiencing financial toxicity associated with cancer in publicly funded healthcare systems: a systematic review of qualitative studies.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2022Pooled it
- The Out-of-Pocket Cost Burden of Cancer Care-A Systematic Literature Review.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2021Pooled it
- Financial toxicity associated with a cancer diagnosis in publicly funded healthcare countries: a systematic review.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2020Pooled it
- Out-of-pocket cost and financial catastrophe of patients with cancer: the alarming cost-of-illness in Bangladesh.International journal for equity in health · 2025Article
- Patient and Family Financial Burden in Cancer: A Focus on Differences across Four Provinces, and Reduced Spending Including Decisions to Forego Care in Canada.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2024Article
- The burden of colorectal cancer survivors in the Netherlands: costs, utilities, and associated patient characteristics.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2022Article
- Article
- Out-of-pocket medical expenses compared across five years for patients with one of five common cancers in Australia.BMC cancer · 2021Article
- Assessing direct healthcare costs when restricted to self-reported data: a scoping review.Health economics review · 2021Article
- Patient and family financial burden associated with cancer treatment in Canada: a national study.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2021Article
- Burden of Treatment among Elderly Patients with Cancer: A Scoping Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- A cost analysis of a community-based support centre for cancer patients and their families in Ireland: the EVeCANs study.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2021Article
- Out-of-pocket-payments and the financial burden of 502 cancer patients of working age in Germany: results from a longitudinal study.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2019Article
- Out-of-pocket expenses experienced by rural Western Australians diagnosed with cancer.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2018Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
9 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
purposeCancer places a significant cost burden on health services. There is increasing recognition that cancer also imposes a financial and economic burden on patients but this has rarely been quantified outside North America. We investigate out-of-pocket costs (OOPCs) incurred by colorectal (CRC) survivors in Ireland.
methodsCRC survivors (ICD10 C18-20) diagnosed 6-30 months previously were identified from the National Cancer Registry Ireland and invited to complete a postal questionnaire. Cancer-related OOPC for tests, procedures, drugs, allied medications and household management in approximately the year following diagnosis were calculated. Robust regression was used to identify predictors of OOPC; this was done for all survivors combined and stratified by age (<70 and ≥70 years) and employment status (working and not working) at diagnosis.
resultsFour hundred ninety-seven CRC survivors completed questionnaires (response rate = 39%). Almost all (90%) respondents reported some cancer-related OOPC. The average total OOPC was €1589. Stage III at diagnosis was associated with significantly higher OOPCs than other stages in the all-survivor model, in those not working in the employment model and in those under 70 years in the age-stratified model. In all-survivor model, those under 70 also had higher OOPCs, as did those in employment. Having one or more children was associated with significantly lower OOPCs in those under 70 years.
conclusionsAlmost all CRC survivors incur cancer-related OOPCs; for some, these are not insignificant. Greater attention should be paid to the development of services to help survivors manage the financial and economic burden of cancer.
Indexed as
Identifiers
28341973What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.