Publications by authors named "Danielle L Rodin"
Purpose: In the past decade, literature has called attention to financial toxicities experienced by cancer patients. Though studies have addressed research questions in high-income countries, there remains a paucity of in-depth reviews regarding low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Our scoping review provides an overview of treatment-related financial toxicities experienced by cancer patients in LMICs.
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- - Early-stage breast cancer (BC) is often curable, but patients may die from causes unrelated to BC, raising questions about how these competing risks affect survival analysis.
- - A study examined 14 meta-analyses from the Early Breast Cancer Trialists Collaborative Group (EBCTCG), finding that many reports had significant differences, of over 10%, between Kaplan-Meier (KM) estimates and adjusted outcomes that consider competing risks.
- - The findings revealed a considerable average difference (like 28.4% for local recurrence) in risk estimates, suggesting that using Cumulative Incidence Function (CIF) methods may provide more accurate BC-specific outcomes compared to the traditional KM methods when competing risks are present.
Radiotherapy is a critical and inseparable component of comprehensive cancer treatment and care. For many of the most common cancers in low-income and middle-income countries, radiotherapy is essential for effective treatment. In high-income countries, radiotherapy is used in more than half of all cases of cancer to cure localised disease, palliate symptoms, and control disease in incurable cancers.
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