ArticleSupportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer2025
Quantifying and addressing self-defined needs in cancer patients.
Article in Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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
0 citing papers in PubMed.
No citing paper in PubMed yet.
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
Abstract
purposeAlmost half of cancer patients will deplete their life savings within the first 2 years of treatment, and one-quarter will declare bankruptcy or lose their home, underscoring the substantial financial toxicity of cancer and need to develop innovative solutions. In this analysis, the financial and non-financial needs articulated by an ethnically diverse cancer patient cohort through a novel, patient-driven portal are quantified, with patient-specific factors and correlations with unique needs further examined.
methodsThis is a retrospective evaluation of oncology patients at two tertiary care cancer treatment centers in New York and Florida who enrolled on the "We're in This Together" (WiTT) Support Registry™ from 01/2023 to 12/2023 to request assistance across four primary domains (Daily Life, Housing, Health, Transportation). Basic and partial Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) data were collected and analyzed.
resultsOf 223 oncology patients who enrolled on the platform, one-half (49%) were 41-60 years old; 65% female, and 54% Hispanic. Within 12 months, 2,411 patient asks (10.8/patient on average) were made. The majority of asks were financial (95%); distribution by domain was 33% Housing, 31% Daily Life, 18% Health, and 18% Transportation. The total "ask" was $1,320,454, averaging $5,921 per patient. Distribution of asks across domains and amounts varied by cancer type, patient age, ethnicity, and sex.
conclusionsThis novel platform may allow for more effective and customized resource allocation for oncology patients based on self-reported needs. Further research will be required to anticipate needs based on unique characteristics and to develop solutions that better address these current gaps.
Indexed as
Identifiers
40748391What 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.