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Drugs designed for prostate cancer may treat melanoma in men
By Caren Begun. Read more at Penn Medicine News.
New research shows that testosterone promotes melanoma proliferation by activating a newly recognized nonclassical testosterone receptor in melanoma cells called ZIP9, a zinc transporter that is not intentionally targeted by any available therapeutics but is widely expressed in human melanoma. The study from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine uses melanoma in animal models to show that drugs that target androgen receptors (AR) in prostate cancer can be effectively repurposed to block ZIP9 and thereby inhibit melanoma in men. The findings are published in the journal Cancer Research.
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/drugs-designed-prostate-cancer-may-treat-melanoma-men
First rules to protect patients from unexpected medical bills issued by agencies
By Amy Goldstein - July 1, 2021 at 7:23 p.m. EDT
The Biden administration issued rules Thursday to shield Americans from large, unexpected medical bills after patients wind up in emergency rooms or receive other care they did not realize lay outside their insurance networks.
Senator, Health Care Executives Discuss What’s Next in Payment, Access Issues
June 24, 2021, Allison Inserro
Earlier this month, a group of bipartisan senators introduced the Telemental Health Care Access Act of 2021, which seeks to allow Medicare beneficiaries to have direct access to mental health care through telehealth. One of those senators spoke at this week’s AHIP meeting about that and other issues, along with 3 health care executives. https://www.ajmc.com/view/senator-health-care-executives-discuss-what-s-next-in-payment-access-issues
Affordable Care Act Survives Latest Supreme Court Challenge
The court sidestepped the larger issue in the case, whether the 2010 health care law can stand without a provision that required most Americans to obtain insurance or pay a penalty.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/17/us/obamacare-supreme-court.html
Mary Kay Foundation Gives $150K To Provide Cancer Resources To Underserved Female Populations
BY ALEX EDWARDS • JUN 8, 2021
Dallas’ Mary Kay Foundation, a longtime leader in the charge to eliminate cancers that affect women, donated $150,000 to CancerCare, the leading nonprofit that offers free financial and professional services to cancer patients.
The grant will allow CancerCare to provide direct support to women who are most in need of assistance. The organization aims to ensure that women largely from vulnerable, medically underserved populations receive the care they need.
Record 31 million Americans have health-care coverage through Affordable Care Act, White House says
By Amy B Wang June 5, 2021 The HealthCare.gov website in 2017. (Alex Brandon/AP) at 5:20 p.m. EDT
About 31 million Americans now have health-care coverage through the Affordable Care Act, the White House announced Saturday, setting a record since the law, colloquially known as “Obamacare,” was enacted in 2010 under President Barack Obama.
According to a report from the Health and Human Services Department, about 11.3 million Americans were enrolled in health-care plans through the Affordable Care Act’s federal marketplaces as of February, with 14.8 million people newly enrolled in Medicaid through the law’s expansion of eligibility as of December. The report also counted an additional 3.9 million Medicaid-enrolled adults who would have been eligible even before the Affordable Care Act but credited “enhanced outreach, streamlined applications, and increased federal funding” from the law for the numbers.
Nearly 10 Million Cancer Screenings Missed During Pandemic
By Robert Preidt, HealthDay Reporter
WEDNESDAY, May 5, 2021 (HealthDay News) -- Nearly 10 million cancer screenings have been missed in the United States during the coronavirus pandemic, researchers report.
The investigators analyzed data on three types of cancer for which early screenings are most beneficial — breast, colon and prostate — and found that 9.4 million screenings for these cancers did not occur in the United States due to COVID-19.
FDA Approves First Immunotherapy for Initial Treatment of Gastric Cancer
For Immediate Release: April 16, 2021
Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Opdivo (nivolumab), in combination with certain types of chemotherapy, for the initial treatment of patients with advanced or metastatic gastric cancer, gastroesophageal junction cancer and esophageal adenocarcinoma. This is the first FDA-approved immunotherapy for the first-line treatment of gastric cancer.
No Cancer Left Behind
By STEPHANIE DUTCHEN April 6, 2021 - Harvard Medical School
Curing cancer has been the dream of countless doctors and researchers over the decades. Yet some types of cancer, whether because they affect relatively few people or lack influential advocates, receive less attention and funding than others.
A recent gift to Harvard Medical School is boosting efforts to understand and combat these understudied malignancies.
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/no-cancer-left-behind
Making Health Insurance Cheaper For Millions Of Americans: President Biden’s Affordable Care Act Reforms
Ellen Chang, Contributor and Korrena Bailie, Editor
Millions of Americans will temporarily have access to health insurance coverage at a lower cost due to the first wide-ranging expansion of the Affordable Care Act.
The subsidies for health insurance are part of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), a $1.9 trillion Covid-19 relief package that was signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 11. New, lower insurance costs begin on April 1
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/personal-finance/american-rescue-plan-act-obamacare-changes/
Digital health care is on the uptake, but 4 hurdles remain
by Brian Eastwood, MIT Sloan School of Management
Mar 18, 2021As recently as February 2020, however, virtual visits still represented fewer than 1 in 250 health care visits, according to FAIR Health, a research organization that looks at commercial health insurance claims. (Virtual visits are a specific type of digital health encounter in which a physician sees a patient electronically.)
That changed virtually overnight as COVID-19 spread across the United States. With stay-at-home orders in place, and with hospitals limiting in-person care to emergency situations, virtual visits skyrocketed to 13% of all insurance claims in April 2020. That figure has dropped since, but virtual visits continue to make up more than 5% of health care visits, FAIR Health’s data shows.
https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/digital-health-care-uptake-4-hurdles-remain
Swelling after COVID-19 shots may cause cancer false alarms
By LAURAN NEERGAARD AP Medical Writer
Getting a mammogram or other cancer check soon after a COVID-19 vaccination? Be sure to tell the doctor about the shot to avoid false alarm over a temporary side effect.
That's the advice from cancer experts and radiologists. Sometimes lymph nodes, especially in the armpit, swell after the vaccinations. It's a normal reaction by the immune system but one that might be mistaken for cancer if it shows up on a mammogram or other scan.
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/swelling-covid-19-shots-cancer-false-alarms-76280958
Understanding Patients’ Needs and Preferences: Cancer Care Stakeholders Explore Barriers and Best Practices
By Caroline McNeil February 10, 2021
The keynote speaker did not mince words. “I tell everyone, do not use the term age-appropriate therapy,” said Jan White, a cancer survivor and patient advocate who described her own experience with stage IV non-Hodgkin lymphoma. “Patients with cancer,” she said, “are more than their age, gender, or disease.”
Her message, stressing the need to avoid assumptions based on age and other patient characteristics, remained a lively and multifaceted theme throughout the afternoon. Speakers and panelists at the National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) Virtual Patient Advocacy Summit, held virtually on December 10, 2020, discussed how and why patient needs and preferences may vary and how policies and practices based on understanding those variations may optimize care.
5 Things To Know About The Health Insurance Marketplace Special Enrollment Period
Robin Saks Frankel - Forbes Advisor Staff
In an effort to shore up health care coverage for Americans facing a double whammy of unemployment and health risks from the coronavirus pandemic, President Joe Biden has reopened the health insurance marketplace for a special enrollment period. From Feb. 15 through May 15, 2021, anyone seeking coverage can apply for an Affordable Care Act (ACA) plan.
Prior to Biden’s executive order, most states only permitted enrollment in a marketplace, or ACA plan, from Nov. 1 through Dec. 15, or if you experienced a qualifying life event, such as having a baby or losing health insurance you had through a job.
According to a study by Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), a health care issues nonprofit, Biden’s order to reopen the health insurance marketplace gives nearly 9 million uninsured Americans access to free or subsidized health insurance.
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/personal-finance/how-to-choose-health-insurance-marketplace-plan/
NCCN Advocacy Summit Explores Cancer Patients Across the Lifespan
Eastman, Peggy - Oncology Times: January 20, 2021 - Volume 43 - Issue 2 - p 18-19
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) focused its annual patient advocacy summit, held virtually this year, on meeting the needs and preferences of cancer patients of all ages and walks of life—with an emphasis on how those needs and preferences can change across the lifespan.
NCCN Shares New Guidance Principles for Vaccinating People with Cancer Against
COVID-19
NEWS PROVIDED BY National Comprehensive Cancer Network
PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., Jan. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) put out new information today to provide guidance for COVID-19 vaccinations in people with cancer. The nonprofit alliance of leading cancer centers created an NCCN COVID-19 Vaccine Committee that includes top hematology and oncology experts with particular expertise in infectious diseases, vaccine development and delivery, medical ethics, and health information technology. These recommendations can help cancer care providers make informed decisions on how to protect their patients from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, based on available evidence plus expert consensus. The committee's recommendations state that all people currently in active cancer treatment should get the vaccine, with some advice to consider regarding immunosuppression and timing. The full document can be found at NCCN.org/covid-19, along with other vital information about the impact of COVID-19 on cancer care.https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nccn-shares-new-guidance-principles-for-vaccinating-people-with-cancer-against-covid-19-301213154.html
FSA Relief and Significant New Health Plan Requirements Included in Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021
Friday, January 15, 2021 - The National Law Review
The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021 (Act), enacted on December 27, 2020, contains a number of provisions that may impact the design and administration of employer-sponsored group health plans and flexible spending account (FSA) benefits. Below, we summarize the primary provisions. In the days and weeks ahead, Spotlight on Benefits will provide a series of blog posts that will address the provisions in more detail. We encourage health and FSA plan sponsors to review the blog posts and consider the preparations needed to comply with applicable changes in the law, including coordinating with insurers and third-party administrators, the various effective dates, and whether plan sponsors will have to amend their health plans or FSA plans to implement any applicable changes.
Why the Amazon, JPMorgan, Berkshire Venture Collapsed: ‘Health Care Was Too Big a Problem
By Sebastian Herrera and David Benoit
Jan. 7, 2021 12:11 pm ET
Amazon.com Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. set out three years ago to join and transform health care. Instead, they struggled to solve even fundamental challenges, such as understanding what some kinds of care actually cost.
Breakthrough Cancer Therapies Offer Hope for Patients
Advances in immunotherapy are showing remarkable results in treating many forms of cancer.
SIX-YEAR-OLD EMILY Whitehead was, in the words of one of the doctors who treated her, "at death's door." In 2012, suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia, she had undergone 16 months of chemotherapy treatments, to no avail. So her parents enrolled her in a clinical trial of a new treatment option, called immunotherapy, designed to boost her own immune system to fight cancer. She was the first child ever to be put on the treatment, involving chimeric antigen receptor T cells. Here, T cells are taken from the patient's own blood, genetically modified (or rewired), in the lab and given back to the patient, where they attack tumors by identifying and latching onto certain proteins the tumors are expressing.
Why The Word For 2021 Is ‘Resilience’ And How It Affects Mental Health
Bryan Robinson, Ph.D.-Contributor
Towards the end of December, it has become a tradition for major wordsmiths to choose one word that sums up the shared experiences of the year. After Collins Dictionary unveiled its chosen word of the year: lockdown—“the imposition of stringent restrictions on travel, social interaction and access to public spaces”—I ran across a post by Thrive Global founder and CEO Arianna Huffington. The article titled, “And the Word of the Year Is . . . Resilience,” was a reaction to word picks by Collins Dictionary and other outlets such as Merriam-Webster and Oxford English Dictionary, who chose other predestined words such as pandemic, quarantine, doomscrolling, coronavirus.
UK to pilot blood test that may detect 50 types of cancer
By Laura Smith-Spark, CNN
Updated 2:26 PM ET, Fri November 27, 2020
London (CNN)The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is to pilot a simple blood test that may detect more than 50 types of cancer and, it is hoped, could help thousands of people by allowing the disease to be treated more successfully at an earlier stage.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/27/health/cancer-blood-test-pilot-gbr-intl/index.html
Important: 2021 Open Enrollment ends Tuesday, December 15, 2020!
You have less than one month to enroll in or change Marketplace health insurance for coverage that starts January 1, 2021. If you miss the deadline, you can only enroll in or change your health plan for 2021 if you qualify for a Special Enrollment Period.
https://www.healthcare.gov/blog/2021-open-enrollment-ends-one-month/
Key Justices Signal Support for Affordable Care Act
At a Supreme Court argument on Tuesday, Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Kavanaugh suggested that striking down one provision …
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/10/us/supreme-court-obamacare-aca.html
Health Care in Spotlight as ACA Enrollment Begins Days Before Election
The Wall Street Journal By Stephanie Armour
Nov. 1, 2020 7:00 am ET
The start of the Affordable Care Act’s open enrollment Sunday comes as millions of Americans have lost or are losing job-based coverage during the coronavirus pandemic, casting a spotlight on health care in the final sprint of the presidential and congressional elections.
4 Cancer Care Self-Advocacy Tips
By S. Adam Ramin, M.D., Contributor Oct. 16, 2020, at 2:30 p.m.
I'VE CARED FOR HUNDREDS of patients throughout my medical career. A cancer diagnosis can sometimes draw a defining line between who a patient believed he or she was before cancer, and who he or she is after. Hearing that you have cancer is heavy for most people, and it can take some time to process the diagnosis, let alone decide precisely how to handle it.
https://health.usnews.com/health-care/for-better/articles/cancer-care-self-advocacy-tips
Does Cancer Chemotherapy Increase My Covid Risks?
By Mikkael A. Sekeres, M.D.
Oct. 7, 2020
Q. I have cancer and am being treated with chemotherapy. Am I at increased risk of getting sick and dying from Covid-19?
A. People with cancer, and particularly those with leukemia, seem to have a higher death rate from Covid-19 than the general population, though cancer chemotherapy does not appear to further increase the risk of dying from Covid. Studies, however, have been limited and results are sometimes difficult to interpret.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/well/live/does-cancer-chemotherapy-increase-my-covid-risks.html
Affordable Care Act eases health care costs for families with children, study finds
Posted on October 2, 2020 by Nancy Fliesler | Ethics/Policy, Our Community
On November 10, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on a case challenging the Affordable Care Act. With the ACA’s future in question, a study from Boston Children’s Hospital provides a reminder that the law has substantially reduced health care expenses for many families with children — particularly low- and middle-income families.
https://discoveries.childrenshospital.org/aca-and-children/
Report aims to give 'guiding light' in overcoming racial disparities in cancer health
Adrianna Rodriguez USA TODAY
The American Association for Cancer Research published its first progress report on cancer disparities, outlining the complex reasons why they exist and a plan for how the country can overcome them.
The report comes at a crucial time during the coronavirus pandemic, when federal officials and institutions are thinking more criticallyabout racial disparities in health care.
The Immense Burden of Cancer is Not Shouldered Equally
While scientific discoveries have led to advances in how we prevent, detect, treat and survive cancer, these gains have not benefited everyone equally.
https://labblog.uofmhealth.org/industry-dx/immense-burden-of-cancer-not-shouldered-equally
What the U.S. can learn from Australia’s hybrid health care system
The U.S. has the world's most expensive health care system, but it leaves roughly 30 million people uninsured. As policymakers consider making changes, some are looking to Australia as a model. That nation has achieved universal health coverage at a lower cost, using a successful mix of public and private systems.Sep 3, 2020 6:35 PM EDT
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-the-u-s-can-learn-from-australias-hybrid-health-care-system
Chadwick Boseman, 'Black Panther' Star,
Dies Of Cancer At 43
August 29, 20207:56 AM ET
Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday
Actor Chadwick Boseman has died of cancer. He played James Brown, Jackie Robinson and Thurgood Marshall, but may have been best known for starring in Marvel's Black Panther.
https://www.npr.org/2020/08/29/907384582/chadwick-boseman-black-panther-star-dies-of-cancer-at-43
Moffitt Cancer Center selects a new CEO,
Dr. Patrick Hwu
Published Aug. 20
Moffitt Cancer Center has named Dr. Patrick Hwu, a tumor immunologist with 33 years of oncology experience, its new president and CEO.
He comes from MD Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas, the nation’s top cancer hospital, where he is head of cancer medicine. Hwu, 57, starts at Moffitt Nov. 10.
7 Ways to Build Resilience in Challenging Times
Posted Aug 16, 2020
Building resilience is no easy task. Here are some useful methods to grow and help others well during COVID-19 and other challenging times.
Kaiser Ahmad Dar is an Assistant Professor at Postgraduate Department of Psychology, Government Degree College, Baramulla, Jammu & Kashmir-193301 (India). He received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi (India), in 2015. His research interests lie in pathology-personality nexus, exposure to traumatic events and mental health, transdiagnostic approach to psychopathology/treatment, statistical approaches to assessing mediation, moderation, and conditional process analysis, and Islamic perspective on psychology.
Scott Hamilton Shares His Story
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) presented a web briefing on August 4, 2020 to unveil researching findings from a nationwide survey, conducted by Edge Research, to better understand the cancer patient and survivor journey.
This survey is a follow-up to the 2018-2019 NCCS survey and includes 15 in-depth interviews and an online survey fielded April 15-May 1, 2020 with 1,319 respondents in two groups. A national sample of 840 survivors used quota sampling to ensure it was representative of the adult US cancer population. National sample respondents represent a range of cancer diagnoses, stages, phases of treatment, and perspectives. A companion survey included 479 respondents invited from the NCCS database.
https://www.curetoday.com/advocacy/scotthamiltoncaresfoundation/scott-hamilton-shares-his-story
New Study from Spain Finds Keys to Resilience in the Pandemic
Posted Aug 01, 2020 = Countries around the world have been wrestling with the negative mental health effects of COVID-19.
July 27, 2020
(Reuters) - AstraZeneca (AZN.L) will pay up to $6 billion to Japan’s Daiichi Sankyo (4568.T) under the drugmakers’ second multi-billion dollar oncology collaboration to develop and market a new type of targeted cancer treatment.
Health Insurers Prep For A Biden White House
Health insurers are beginning to strategize on how to deal with healthcare proposals pushed by Democrats and a future Joe Biden White House from a public option to “Medicare at 60” and expanded Medicaid benefits under a stronger Affordable Care Act.
Honored to be included on Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Survivor Stories
We were living the American dream. I married my college sweetheart Michael, and we celebrated our 32nd wedding anniversary last fall. We have a wonderful son, who is engaged to a fabulous young woman, and they have launched their life together in Indianapolis.
Michael and I run a successful small business, Meetings by Design for more than 25 years. We did everything ‘right’. Ate right. Don’t smoke. I exercised, studying martial arts and in April 2015 was accorded the honor of achieving a 3rd-degree black belt in Kenpo karate. But just one year later, in April 2016, our lives were forever changed when I was diagnosed with aggressive, stage IV, non-Hodgkin lymphoma that had invaded among other places, my chest, and my spine.
https://www.lls.org/someday-is-today/stories/jan
Teaching your children resilience for hard times? These kids' books are all about it
(CNN)As Covid-19 infections continue to rise, many families are left explaining to children that the challenges of pandemic life — from missed social events to physical distancing — aren't likely to end soon.
But while this pandemic is unlike anything the world has faced in living memory, previous generations of children and youth have lived, grown and even thrived through great hardship. Their stories can be models of resilience, said children's book author and librarian Glenda Armand.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/13/health/children-books-resilience-wellness/index.html
Stage 4 Cancer Survivor Intends To Tell Her Story
HAC member Jan White has been through hell and back, but you’d never guess based off the positivity and liveliness she exudes.
In February 2016, she started having pain in her back, which her doctor thought was cracked ribs due to coughing from a bad case of the flu. But after weeks of escalating pain, several trips to the doctor, and still no improvement, an MRI was ordered to look for herniated disks.
Jan and her husband were stunned to learn she had multiple tumors. Further testing showed the tumors to be cancer that was so advanced, Jan was admitted to the hospital and on chemotherapy within 24 hours of receiving her cancer diagnosis: she had aggressive, Stage 4 Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
Yale study: Breast cancer found earlier in states with expanded Medicaid
July 1, 2020
In a new Yale Cancer Center (YCC) study, researchers have demonstrated that a higher percentage of women with breast cancer had their disease diagnosed at an early stage in states with expanded Medicaid coverage through the Affordable Care Act (ACA). No such change was seen in states that didn’t expand their coverage. The findings were published today in JAMA Surgery.
https://news.yale.edu/2020/07/01/yale-study-breast-cancer-found-earlier-states-expanded-medicaid
Bill requiring insurers to pay for supplemental breast cancer screenings about to become law in Pa.
Posted Jun 26, 5:30 AM
By Jan Murphy
A bill that would require insurance companies to provide coverage of ultrasound or magnetic resonance imaging for women at increased risk of breast cancer is about to reach Gov. Tom Wolf.
The governor has indicated he will sign it into law.
Cancer prevention guideline emphasizes more physical activity, less meat and alcohol
June 09, 2020
An updated American Cancer Society guideline increases the amount of weekly physical activity recommended to reduce cancer risk.
The guideline — published in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians — also suggests individuals reduce consumption of red and processed meat, sugar-sweetened beverages, processed foods and alcohol, and includes evidence-based strategies to reduce barriers to healthy eating and active living.
COVID-19: Keeping patients on cancer clinical trials
June 15, 2020
When the country went into lockdown in March, hospital trusts began to make difficult decisions as to which clinical trials they could safely keep open, and which had to close.
One key consideration was how to protect trial participants, as many cancer medicines – including experimental therapies – can compromise the immune system, putting people at an increased risk of severe effects should they develop COVID-19. Balancing these risks against the risks of cancer has been a huge challenge.
Trial that includes Cleveland Clinic finds blood test can detect 50 types of cancer
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A simple blood test could be the next frontier in cancer screening, according to trial results published in the Annals of Oncology.
A “liquid biopsy” aims to detect cancers early, when there are no symptoms, by analyzing DNA released from tumors or cancerous sites to detect the presence of cancer and the location. A nationwide trial tested the technology on samples from 142 sites, including the Cleveland Clinic.
Amid COVID-19, doctors and cancer patients face new challenges
Rochester, N.Y. - Even though we’re still in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the fight goes on for those with cancer.
One local patient is taking extra precautions to keep her weakened immune system safe. Deb Sisto was diagnosed with breast cancer five months ago. Her fight weakened her immune system, making her vulnerable to infections and the quickly-spreading coronavirus.
https://13wham.com/news/local/amid-covid-19-doctors-and-cancer-patients-face-new-challenges
A boost for cancer immunotherapy
One promising strategy to treat cancer is stimulating the body’s own immune system to attack tumors. However, tumors are very good at suppressing the immune system, so these types of treatments don’t work for all patients.
MIT engineers have now come up with a way to boost the effectiveness of one type of cancer immunotherapy. They showed that if they treated mice with existing drugs called checkpoint inhibitors, along with new nanoparticles that further stimulate the immune system, the therapy became more powerful than checkpoint inhibitors given alone. This approach could allow cancer immunotherapy to benefit a greater percentage of patients, the researchers say.
http://news.mit.edu/2020/boost-cancer-immunotherapy-0601
Resilience in the face of COVID-19
All can agree that we are in a crisis that is unprecedented. A quick search on Google will tell us that child abuse, domestic violence, intimate partner violence and substance abuse reporting are all up.
High levels of distress are with us considering many of us may represent “at high risk population.”
So how do we respond and get this right? Is there a silver lining? There is plenty of advice out there, but how do we in our communities translate all of it into constructive action?
https://yourvalley.net/stories/resilience-in-the-face-of-covid-19,160893
Providing Safe Cancer Care in the Time of COVID
How the Rogel Cancer Center is protecting patients while adapting to the challenges presented by the coronavirus pandemic.
https://www.uofmhealth.org/news/archive/202005/providing-safe-cancer-care-time-covid
