Cash for cancer care: $1,000 a month trial aims to ease financial burden
NCT ID NCT06611982
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study gives 250 advanced cancer patients $1,000 each month for a year to see if it reduces financial stress and improves quality of life. Participants also complete surveys every three months. The goal is to learn whether extra income can help patients stick to treatments and feel better overall.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 250 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Apr 2023
- Expected to finish
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Jul 2026
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion 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 Exclusion Criteria: 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
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
Contacts and locations
Locations
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Jefferson Health
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19107, United States
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Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, United States
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Pennsylvania Hospital
Philadelphia, New York, 19107, United States
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