Talk:Financial toxicity

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Financial toxicity is a relatively new term in oncology, first described last year by academic oncologists. The phrase refers to the way out-of-pocket expenses can drain the wallets of cancer patients, poison quality of life and, in fact, become an adverse event of treatment.

Financial toxicity is a new term in cancer treatments, that indicate how the cost of medications can cause a personal bankruptcy of cancer patients, diminish quality of life and can lead to both negative mental and physical effects and become in fact a major complication of cancer treatment. Such high costs of cancer therapy may lead to the suffering of the patient, comparable to physical suffering, and to the deterioration of the results of treatment.

--Danvasilis (talk) 00:44, 12 March 2015 (UTC)

Merge with larger Cancer article and delete this page?

There's not much here, and both citations are at least co-written by the same researcher (Yousuf Zafar). It seems this is more suited to be included in the Cancer: Economic effect section of that article, and delete this page, unless this article can be improved to show it can stand on its own. Fuzchia (talk) 22:37, 23 June 2015 (UTC)

@Fuzchia: I have been WP:BOLD and simply redirected this to the "economic effects" section of cancer. The content, as you can see above, is probably not free, and I am always weary of a single researcher being mentioned as the prime source. Any further discussion on the impact of cancer on patients' financial situation should be added in the main article. This is even an issue in the UK, where loss of earnings and hidden costs (e.g. paid car parking in hospitals) can have a real financial impact. Not everyone can cook meth in an RV in the New Mexico desert. JFW | T@lk 11:52, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Thank you, @Jfdwolff: I'm fairly new here, and I'll be sure to be more WP:BOLD in the future! Fuzchia (talk) 15:03, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

Greetings User:Jfdwolff. It's still not much of an article, but I was looking at a source on heart disease that also used the term "financial toxicity," so I cited the source and thought it would be inappropriate to leave it as a redirect that implies to our readers that it's only a cancer-related concept. It appears the literature has now broadened its use of the term. Best wishes. Biosthmors (talk) 01:47, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Further discussions on the causes of ‘Financial Toxicity’ including rising healthcare costs, insurance premiums, high deductibles, and out-of-pocket expenses should be added to the main article.

Also references number 6 and number 7 in the article need to be updated, the web pages are not found.208.180.239.26 (talk) 23:11, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

Further discussions on the causes of ‘Financial Toxicity’ including rising healthcare costs, insurance premiums, high deductibles, and out-of-pocket expenses should be added to the main article.

Also references number 6 and number 7 in the article need to be updated, the web pages are not found.Aankrah (talk) 23:52, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Psychology of Financial Planning II

This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 25 August 2023 and 17 October 2023. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Aankrah (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by BCSurvivor20! (talk) 15:43, 31 August 2023 (UTC)