Medical Travel for Immigrant Patients With Cancer-Returning Home

Nishwant Swami; Edward Christopher Dee; Narjust Florez

doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2023.3508

Medical Travel for Immigrant Patients With Cancer-Returning Home

JAMA Oncol. 2023 Nov 1;9(11):1493-1494. doi: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2023.3508.

Authors

Nishwant Swami^{1

2}, Edward Christopher Dee³, Narjust Florez⁴

Affiliations

¹ University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, Worcester.
² Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
³ Department of Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.
⁴ Department of Medical Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

PMID: 37733362
DOI: 10.1001/jamaoncol.2023.3508

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This Viewpoint describes motivations for and barriers to travel to the country of origin among immigrant patients with cancer and recommends strategies to address these motivations and barriers.

MeSH terms

Emigrants and Immigrants*
Humans
Medical Tourism*
Neoplasms*
Travel