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The Twitter Effect on How Oncologists Conduct and Share Research

The social media platform can be useful as an education tool for oncologists to stay up to date on new research in oncology — but physicians still need to be mindful of the information sources.
How Patients Lose Their Own Voices: Disparities in Patient-Reported Outcome Capture in Clinical Trials

It remains important to interrogate how structural discrimination influences the collection of patient-reported outcomes.
Children With Cancer Not Experiencing as Severe COVID-19 as Initially Feared

Studies suggest that the majority of pediatric patients with cancer and COVID-19 experience mild disease — rather than severe disease — as a result of infection with the novel virus.
Researchers Reveal Racial Disparities in Access to Remdesivir for Patients With Cancer and COVID-19

Black patients were half as likely to receive remdesivir as White patients, according to researchers from the CCC19.
Seven Tips for Managing Health Care Teamwork During a Pandemic

COVID-19 has brought unprecedented stress to society at large and perhaps most of all to frontline healthcare teams in a variety of settings. We spoke to an expert about teamwork during such trying times.

GENERAL ONCOLOGY CANCERS NEWS

A Penn Medicine team debuts its program focused on cancer care at home — just in time for COVID-19.

ASCO Releases Position Statement on Home Infusion of Anticancer Treatments

August 12, 2020

If validated, a patient-specific ctDNA assay for residual disease after neoadjuvant therapy could bring an end to the surgery-for-all approach in breast cancer.

ctDNA Level Is a Potential Prognostic Biomarker for Immunotherapy

August 11, 2020

A hospital corridor.

COVID-19 Pandemic Leads to Radiotherapy Interruptions in China

August 10, 2020

Chemotherapy Drugs

How Cancer Care Can Affect the Kidney

August 7, 2020

Do proton ?radiotherapy collimators pose neutron radiation risks?

Restructured Process Overcomes Barriers to Prior Authorization for Proton Therapy

August 7, 2020

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A Penn Medicine team debuts its program focused on cancer care at home — just in time for COVID-19.

ASCO Releases Position Statement on Home Infusion of Anticancer Treatments