Self-Reported Financial Difficulties Among Patients with Multiple Myeloma and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia Treated at U.S. Community Oncology Clinics (Alliance A231602CD).

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To estimate the proportion and correlates of self-reported financial difficulty among patients with multiple myeloma (MM) or chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).

Setting

23 U.S. community and minority oncology practice sites affiliated with the National Cancer Institute Community Oncology Research Program (NCORP).

Participants

521 patients (≥18 years) with MM or CLL were consented and 416 responded to a survey (completion rate=79.8%). Respondents had a MM diagnosis (74.0%), an associate degree or higher (53.4%), were White (89.2%), insured (100%) and treated with clinician-administered drugs (68.0%).

Interventions

Observational, prospective, protocol-based survey administered in 2019-2020.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Financial diffic

SUBMITTER: Conti RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11451638 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature