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ArticleSupportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer2018

Financial toxicity and symptom burden: what is the big deal?

Raymond Javan Chan, Louisa Gordon, Syed Yousuf Zafar, Christine Miaskowski

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Article in Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from 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.

2 · The registry

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.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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  4. Unraveling the vicious cycle: longitudinal analysis between financial toxicity and symptom burden in women with breast cancer.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025
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  5. Exploring behavioural motivations of treatment refusal in cancer: a Q-methodological approach.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2025
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  9. Financial navigation: Staff perspectives on patients' financial burden of cancer care.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2023
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  13. Future research in cancer survivorship.Journal of cancer survivorship : research and practice · 2021
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  17. Medical Financial Hardship Intensity and Financial Sacrifice Associated with Cancer in the United States.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Raymond Javan ChanSchool of Nursing, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Q4059, Australia. Raymond.Chan@qut.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0248-7046
Louisa GordonSchool of Nursing, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Q4059, Australia.
Syed Yousuf ZafarDuke Cancer Institute, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.
Christine MiaskowskiSchool of Nursing, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, Brisbane, Q4059, Australia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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Conceptual frameworkFinancial distressFinancial toxicitySurvivorshipSymptom burdenSymptom cluster

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