[Sociodemographic and Clinical Factors Associated with Informal Care in Hematologic Malignancy Patients: a Study Based on Different Phases of the Treatment, Spain].

Background: There is little information on factors related to use of to informal care in cancer patients. Our objective is to study sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with use of informal care in patients with hematologic malignancy and analyze how these changes throughout different phases of the treatment.

Methods: 139 patients diagnosed with hematologic malignancy who received an haematopoietic stem cell transplantation between 2006-2011 in two Spanish hospitals completed the developed postal questionnaire.

Productivity loss due to premature mortality caused by blood cancer: a study based on patients undergoing stem cell transplantation.

Introduction: Stem cell transplantation has been used for many years to treat haematological malignancies that could not be cured by other treatments. Despite this medical breakthrough, mortality rates remain high. Our purpose was to evaluate labour productivity losses associated with premature mortality due to blood cancer in recipients of stem cell transplantations.