Close X
Thursday, November 28, 2024
ADVT 
Tech

Now, a tool to predict financial pain from cancer

Darpan News Desk IANS, 22 Jun, 2014 12:43 PM
  • Now, a tool to predict financial pain from cancer

Along with distress that comes with cancer diagnosis and the discomfort of treatment, more patients now have to deal with "financial toxicity", the expense, anxiety and loss of confidence confronting those who face large, unpredictable costs.


Researchers have now developed a tool to measure a patient's risk for, and ability to tolerate, financial stress that comes with cancer. 

Named COST (Comprehensive Score for financial Toxicity), the tool comprises 11 questions, assembled and refined from conversations with more than 150 patients with advanced cancer.

"A few physicians discuss this increasingly significant side effect with their patients," said Jonas de Souza, head-and-neck cancer specialist at University of Chicago Department of Medicine in the US. 

"We believe that a thoughtful, concise tool that could help predict a patient's risk for financial toxicity might open the lines of communication. This gives us a way to launch that discussion," de Souza added.

Explaining the utility of the tool, he noted, "If patients know what to expect, they may want their physicians to consider less costly medications." 

The findings appeared in the journal Cancer.

MORE Tech ARTICLES

Now, direct your dreams with electric current!

Now, direct your dreams with electric current!
Do nightmares often wake you up in the middle of the night or make you sweat even during the winter?

Now, direct your dreams with electric current!

Robotic arm that can catch flying objects

Robotic arm that can catch flying objects
With its palm open, this robot is completely motionless. A split second later, it suddenly unwinds and catches all sorts of flying objects thrown in its direction - a tennis racket, a ball, a bottle and so on.

Robotic arm that can catch flying objects

Is the pdf near its end?

Is the pdf near its end?
You download it often to read academic paper, research note, even a profile of your favourite candidate on your smart phone or tablet.

Is the pdf near its end?

Samsung president 'stable' after heart attack

Samsung president 'stable' after heart attack
Samsung Electronics President Lee Kun-hee is recovering in a hospital after suffering a heart attack this weekend, the Samsung Group said Monday.

Samsung president 'stable' after heart attack

Selfies turning into dangerous addiction among teenagers?

Selfies turning into dangerous addiction among teenagers?
Are selfies turning into an obsession too dangerous for teenagers to cope with? If we believe experts, adding social media to the already prevalent peer pressure is only increasing the pressure further up.

Selfies turning into dangerous addiction among teenagers?

Google Glass celebrates Mother's Day!

Google Glass celebrates Mother's Day!
As the world prepares to celebrate Mother's Day Sunday, a new promotional Google Glass short film features the love between a mother and her son.

Google Glass celebrates Mother's Day!