Background: Following an early-stage cancer diagnosis, recurrences can occur. To quantify financial impacts of a first recurrence, we surveyed patients and caregivers.
Methods: The survey was self-administered online to patients ( = 202) with early-stage bladder, gastric, head and neck, melanoma, non-small cell lung, renal cell, and triple-negative breast cancers that recurred and caregivers ( = 100) of such patients. Work productivity and financial impacts were explored.
Results: Negative impacts on work productivity, employment, finances, and healthcare resource use were identified, with significant differences seen across cancer types, between locoregional and distant/metastatic recurrences, and from pre-recurrence to post-recurrence.
Conclusions: The financial burden to patients, caregivers, healthcare systems, and society following early-stage cancer recurrence is substantial. Treatments that decrease recurrences can reduce this burden.
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