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Financial toxicity in clinical care today: a “menu without prices”

Sanchia Aranda and David Currow
Med J Aust 2016; 205 (11): . || doi: 10.5694/mja16.00960
Published online: 12 December 2016

Cancer has an impact on patients and their families in a myriad of ways. As Koczwara and colleagues point out in their letter, this is not just related to the direct costs of clinical care, which was the main focus of our article,1 but may impact the treatment decisions or alter the life course in many ways.


  • 1 Cancer Council Australia, Sydney, NSW
  • 2 Cancer Institute New South Wales, Sydney, NSW



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  • 1. Currow D, Aranda S. Financial toxicity in clinical care today: a “menu without prices”. Med J Aust 2016; 204: 397. <MJA full text>
  • 2. de Boer AG, Taskila TK, Tamminga SJ, et al. Interventions to enhance return-to-work for cancer patients. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2015; (9): CD007569.

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