Guaranteed Income and Financial Treatment

Description

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if providing advanced cancer patients with $1000/month for 12 months will improve cancer outcomes. The main questions it aims to answer are: To what extent does receiving $1000/month additional income reduce financial hardship? To what extent does receiving $1000/month additional income improve quality of life? Does receiving $1000/month additional income improve survival outcomes? Participants will: Receive $1000/month for 12 months Complete a survey every 3 months for 12 months If selected, participate in semi-structured interviews about their financial behaviors

Conditions

Cancer, Financial Hardship, Quality of Life

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Study overview

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if providing advanced cancer patients with $1000/month for 12 months will improve cancer outcomes. The main questions it aims to answer are: To what extent does receiving $1000/month additional income reduce financial hardship? To what extent does receiving $1000/month additional income improve quality of life? Does receiving $1000/month additional income improve survival outcomes? Participants will: Receive $1000/month for 12 months Complete a survey every 3 months for 12 months If selected, participate in semi-structured interviews about their financial behaviors

Guaranteed Income and Financial Treatment Trial

Guaranteed Income and Financial Treatment

Condition
Cancer
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Philadelphia

Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, New York, United States, 19107

Philadelphia

Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104

Philadelphia

Jefferson Health, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19107

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • 1. Age = 18 or older
  • 2. Newly diagnosed or recurrent advanced cancer (Stage 3 or 4)
  • 3. Receiving chemotherapy or immunotherapy (with or without radiation) at one of the recruitment sites
  • 4. Within 12 months of receiving systemic therapy and on surveillance at one of the recruitment sites
  • 5. ECOG performance status of 1 - 2
  • 6. A Pennsylvania Medicaid beneficiary
  • 7. A Pennsylvania resident
  • 1. Eligible for hospice (i.e. determined by provider to have a prognosis of 6 months or less) at time of randomization
  • 2. Unable to communicate in English, Spanish, or Mandarin

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Meredith Doherty,

Meredith Doherty, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of Pennsylvania

Study Record Dates

2026-07-30