Table 1

Eligibility criteria

CategoryInclusionExclusion
Type of studies

  • Peer-reviewed original articles.

  • Grey literature, review studies and case studies.

Language

  • English.

  • Other languages.

Participants

  • Patients with cancer and their family caregivers residing in sub-Saharan Africa.*

  • All ages and genders.

  • Studies in both hospital and household/community settings.

  • Non-family caregivers.

  • Studies analysing population-level secondary data.

Exposure

  • Diagnosed with cancer.

  • Not diagnosed with cancer.

Outcomes

  • Financial burden (in both objective and subjective terms).

  • Cost-effectiveness of specific cancer treatment.

  • *Sub-Saharan African countries will be identified based on the World Bank classification.28 Forty-eight countries are included as of November 2023.