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Talking With Patients About the Cost of Cancer Care

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Oncologists often have to deliver difficult messages to their patients. It is part of the job and part of the training. It is never easy, and some physicians are more skilled at this than others.

Increasingly, the physician's difficult message includes not just prognosis and therapeutic options, but also the estimated cost of care. While a recent study found about one quarter of surveyed oncologists rarely, if ever, discuss the financial costs of cancer treatment with their patients,¹ most oncologists realize that patients need to understand the impact of their treatment choices on their personal and their family's finances.

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