Pediatric Cancer Carries Greater Financial Toxicity Than Adult Disease, Driving Calls for Systemic Change

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The Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation calls for systemic change as pediatric cancer creates long-term financial burdens extending through survivorship.

Cancer often creates more severe financial toxicity for pediatric patients than for adults, with burdens that begin at diagnosis and can persist for decades into survivorship, prompting calls from experts for systemic change.