Financial toxicity (FT) refers to the subjective financial distress and objective financial burden of medical care expenditures. 1 An increasing amount of attention has been paid to FT in patients with cancer, in large part due to the rising costs of cancer diagnosis and treatment. 2 Previous studies of FT in cancer patients have examined the prevalence of FT among subgroups of patients with different cancer types, 3-6 cancer stages, 5,7,8 treatment schemes, 5,9 healthcare coverage systems, [10][11][12] or other subgroups as well as related factors of FT. These studies indicated
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