Advancing Health Equity in Cancer-Related Distress: Lessons Learned From the COVID-19 Pandemic on Leveraging Digital Tools and Future Directions

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Disclosures: The authors have disclosed that they have no financial interests, arrangements, affiliations, or commercial interests with the manufacturers of any products discussed in this article or their competitors.

Correspondence: Derek Falk, PhD, MSW, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106-7288. Email: derek.falk@case.edu
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