Rod Carlo Columbres: Psychosocial and financial sequelae of cancer in Filipino patients caregivers
Narjust Florez shared a post by Rod Carlo Columbres, Research Fellow at , on X, adding:
“Cancer care is so different from nation to nation Culture and social behaviors directly affects how our patients get care and survive their cancer Check out this paper by Dr. Rod Carlo Columbres financial and psychosocial needs of patients with cancer in the Philippines.”
Quoting Rod Carlo Columbres’s post:
“Excited to share our latest paper in JCO Global Oncology.
Here, we shed light on the psychosocial and financial sequelae of cancer, as it affects Filipino patients’ families and caregivers.”
Financial Sequelae of Cancer for Patients’ Family Members and Caregivers: A Focus on the Philippines
Autors: Rod Carlo Columbres, Erin Jay G. Feliciano, Lance Isidore Catedral, Jose Ma. H. Zaldarriaga, Michelle Ann B. Eala, Jerickson Abbie Flores, Enrico D. Tangco, Narjust Florez, Frederic Ivan L. Ting, and Edward Christopher Dee.
Source: Narjust Florez/X and Rod Carlo Columbres/X
Narjust Florez is the Associate Director of the Cancer Care Equity Program and a thoracic medical oncologist at the Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center. She is the principal investigator of the Sexual Health Assessment in Women with Lung Cancer (SHAWL) Study, the largest study to date evaluating sexual dysfunction in women with lung cancer.
She received the 2020 Rising Star award by the LEAD National Conference for women in hematology and oncology. In addition, Dr. Florez founded the Florez Lab in 2019. The laboratory focuses on lung cancer, social justice issues in medicine, and medical education.
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