Meeting Patients Where They Are: Policy Platform for Telehealth and Cancer Care Delivery

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Sheetal Kircher
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Volume/Issue:
Volume 19: Issue 12
Online Publication Date:
Dec 2021
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.6004/jnccn.2021.7111
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Disclosures: The authors have disclosed that they have no financial interests, arrangements, or affiliations with the manufacturers of any products discussed in this article or their competitors.

Correspondence: Sheetal Kircher, MD, Division of Hematology Oncology, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, 676 North Saint Clair Street, Suite 850, Chicago, IL 60611. Email: sheetal.kircher@nm.org
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1540-1405
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1540-1413
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National Comprehensive Cancer Network
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Print Publication Date:
01 Dec 2021
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Dec 2021

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