PodCast

Cancer Treatment in the USA: A Financially Toxic Cocktail

Nature Cancer News Feature on the global issue of financial toxicity, in which Dr. Hamel was quoted and the team’s American Cancer Society-funded trial of the DISCO App was included as a potential solution

Cancer’s Financial Cost Can Be Almost as Toxic to Patients as the Disease Itself

Nautilus Interview on Hamel LM, et al. Do patients and oncologists discuss the cost of cancer treatment? An observational study of clinical interactions between African-American patients and their oncologists. J Oncol Pract 2017; 13:194;e249-e259

Financial Burden of Cancer Runs Deep

Clinical Oncology News Interview on ASCO Quality Symposium Poster Presentation from February 26, 2016

Less Than Half of Cancer Patients Ask Doctor About Treatment Costs; Wayne State Project Aims to Change That

Crain’s Detroit Business Interview on the team’s American Cancer Society Research Scholar Grant, “DISCO: A patient intervention to reduce the financial burden of cancer” RSG-20-026-01-CPHPS

Data Reveal Reasons for Under-enrollment of Minorities in Clinical Trials

Medical Ethics Advisor Interview on Hamel LM, et al. Barriers to clinical trial enrollment in racial and ethnic minority patients with cancer. Cancer Control 2016; 23:327-337.