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|Videos|June 27, 2014
Barriers to Diagnosing, Treating Geriatric Cancer Patients
Author(s)Hyman B. Muss, MD
In this interview, Dr. Hyman Muss discusses some of the barriers to providing high-quality care to geriatric cancer patients, including the barriers to diagnosis and treatment.
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In this interview, Hyman B. Muss, MD, creator of the geriatric oncology program at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses some of the barriers to providing high-quality care to geriatric cancer patients, including the barriers to diagnosis and treatment, factors that prevent high-quality patient assessment, and how academic and community settings differ in their approach to treating this segment of the patient population.
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