Financial Hardship in Childhood Cancer Survivors Treated with Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation: A Report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study.

ABSTRACT: Long-term survivors of childhood cancer are at risk for financial hardship. However, it is not known if HCT leads to an incremental change in financial hardship for survivors who received it versus those who did not. We examined financial outcomes among adult survivors of childhood cancer who had undergone HCT. Using a cross-sectional survey in the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study population between 2017 and 2019, self-reported financial hardship was compared between survivors who received HCT, survivors treated without HCT ("non-HCT"), and siblings and categorized into 3 domains: material hardship/financial sacrifices, behavioral, and psychological hardship. The standardized score of each domain of financial hardship was calculated by adding the item responses and dividing by the standard

SUBMITTER: Buchbinder D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10834839 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature