Financial toxicity on treatment outcomes in head & neck cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy
Financial toxicity is common in head and neck radiation patients and linked to worse HRQoL, morbidity, and OS. Affected patients had clear socioeconomic risk factors and advanced disease. Further research should explore interventions to improve cancer outcomes.
Authors
- Gelareh Sadigh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3233-1878)
- Michael A. Hoyt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2274-1902)
- Nicholas Peterson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4157-8119)
- Shirin Attarian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3199-8331)
- Eric Ku (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4335-2116)
- Garrett K. Harada (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7024-3783)
- Erin Healy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-3693-5470)
- Akul Munjal
- Allen Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4914-8802)
- Jeremy P. Harris
- Jino Park (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5228-3880)
- Sophie Hsu
- Rupali Banker
Institutions
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- Memorial Medical Center (US)
- University of California, Irvine Medical Center (US)
- UC Irvine Health (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Radiation Oncology
- Published
- 2025-11-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s13014-025-02749-x
- Primary Topic
- Economic and Financial Impacts of Cancer
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00