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In the 2021 Lynn Sage Breast Cancer Symposium, Dr. Reshma Jagsi spoke about informed decisionmaking about radiation therapy for patients with breast cancer.  

A new Prevention magazine story about disparities in womens' health cites CBSSM's Director, Dr. Reshma Jagsi discussing the impact of underrepresentation of women in clinical research.

A new article features Dr. Susan Goold and colleagues' recent evaluation of Michigan Medicaid expansion impacts on the health and work ability of low-income Michigan residents.
 

In a new Health Affairs paper, Kayter Spector-Bagdady, JD, MBioethics and coauthors explore the reasons for racial and ethnic disparities in research biospecimen and data bank recruitment and enrollment at a major academic medical center, Michigan Medicine.

The financial burden of cancer care is a growing issue. In fact, the topic has even sprouted a name to reflect its seriousness — financial toxicity — likening it to the toxicities of the treatments that kill cancer cells.

It’s a fitting term. Slightly more patients were worried about the high financial burden of their cancer care than of dying from cancer, one 2018 survey found. But the medical community is stepping up to research and address the challenge more than ever before.

“We have made a lot of progress in many types of cancer treatment, which is wonderful. But we must turn our efforts to confronting the financial devastation many patients face,” said Reshma Jagsi, M.D., D.Phil., a radiation oncologist at the Rogel Cancer Center who studies the issue.

Michigan Health spoke with Jagsi to understand more about how financial toxicity affects patients and what resources patients can turn to.