TY - JOUR T1 - The hospital-based socioeconomic study to assess the financial toxicity among cancer survivors A1 - Awadhesh Pandey A1 - Poorva Vias A1 - Suraj Mangwana A1 - Snehpreet Kaur A1 - Kislay Dimri A1 - Dinesh Walia JF - Clinical Cancer Investigation Journal JO - Clin Cancer Investig J SN - 2278-0513 Y1 - 2020 VL - 9 IS - 4 DO - 10.4103/ccij.ccij_26_20 SP - 121 EP - 125 N2 - Background: Cancer forms the second-most common cause of death worldwide. Once a patient is diagnosed with cancer, socioeconomic life of the patient is altogether changed. In developing countries, like India, as the prevalence of cancer is increasing, policies and schemes need to be incorporated to overcome the financial burden of disease. This study was aimed to know the socioeconomic burden of cancer in our country, so as to further improve the health economics. Materials and Methods: This was a prospective study done over a period of 2 years. Three thousand and twelve patients were enrolled in this study that was diagnosed with cancer on biopsy. Interview method with the help of semistructured questionnaire was used to collect the data, and IBM SPSS statistics version 20 was used to analyze this data. The Chi-square test and t-test were applied to look for correlation. Results: Three thousand and twelve patients participated in the study, and out of them, 73% of the patients were in the fourth to sixth decades. Fifty-seven percent of patients had total family income of UR - https://ccij-online.org/article/the-hospital-based-socioeconomic-study-to-assess-the-financial-toxicity-among-cancer-survivors-849 ER -