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Caleb Dulaney, MD, on Breast Cancer: Improving Online Patient Information

2017 Quality Care Symposium

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Caleb Dulaney, MD, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham, discusses ways to broaden and improve the quality of information that women with breast cancer find—in English and Spanish—on websites of nationally recognized cancer centers (Abstract 135).



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