Here’s a new data point for cancer patients to consider: ‘time toxicity’
“As an oncologist, patients rely on us to convey to them the relative risks and benefits of a treatment. And I think we should consider time toxicity more explicitly in…
When Jeannette Cleland learned earlier this year that she could get chemotherapy at home, after dropping a particularly toxic medication, it seemed like good news.
But then Cleland, a 44-year-old Minneapolis event planner who has stage 4 pancreatic cancer, did the math. She added up the time involved: waiting for a nurse to arrive to draw her blood; waiting for a courier to pick up her blood; waiting for another courier to drop off the chemotherapy drugs; waiting for a nurse to arrive to connect her to the infusion pump and later for another nurse to return to disconnect her.
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