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Ryan Huey, MD, on the Financial Toxicity of Early-Phase Clinical Trials

2019 Quality Care Symposium

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Ryan Huey, MD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses his findings that showed the large financial burden on lower-income patients enrolled in phase I trials (Abstract 8).



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