Assessing Financial Difficulty in Patients With Blood Cancers
Overview
Overview
This trial studies financial difficulty in participants with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and multiple myeloma. Assessment of financial difficulty may help to better understand the financial impact of cancer and come up with ways to help participants avoid financial problems during treatment.
Key Inclusion Criteria
Key Inclusion Criteria
For a patient to be eligible for participation in this study, all of the following criteria must apply.
- Patients must have current diagnosis of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) or multiple myeloma (MM)
- Patients' medical records must be available to the registering institution
- Eligible patients must have been prescribed drug-based anticancer therapy, whether administered orally or by infusion, within the prior 12 months. Specifically, eligible patients are those who:
- Are presently being treated with infused or orally-administered anticancer therapy, OR
- Completed infused or orally-administered anti-cancer therapy in the past 12 months, OR
- Were prescribed infused or orally-administered anticancer therapy within the prior 12 months yet chose to forego treatment
- Not currently enrolled in a clinical trial in which drug is supplied by the study
- Patients with psychiatric illness or other mental impairment that would preclude their ability to give informed consent or to respond to the telephone survey are not eligible
- Patients must be able to read and comprehend English or Spanish
Learn More
Learn More
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Study Type
Observational
Principal Investigator(s)
James D. Bearden III, MD
Contact Us
Contact Us
For more information about this study, please contact Clinical Research at
864-560-6812