Financial Toxicity in Patients With Resected Soft Tissue and Bone Sarcomas

Summary

To learn about the financial stress patients undergoing surgery to treat orthopedic cancer experience because of the costs of cancer care, and to learn about the effects of financial stress on participants quality of life.

Detailed description

Measure the prevalence of financial toxicity and the severity of it in orthopaedic oncology patients undergoing surgical intervention using an objective, validated instrument. Secondary objectives include identifying socioeconomic and demographic risk factors for financial toxicity and evaluating clinicopathologic characteristics that may worsen financial stress in this population.

Arms & interventions

• Otherdata collection

  data collection from electronic health records

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Eligibility criteria