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Antoni Ribas, MD, PhD, on Highlights of AACR’s COVID-19 and Cancer Meeting

AACR Virtual Meeting: COVID-19 and Cancer 2021

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Antoni Ribas, MD, PhD, of the University of California, Los Angeles and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, and President of the American Association for Cancer Research, talks about why the meeting was held, how the coronavirus has affected cancer care and will impact long-term survivorship, as well as health-care disparities and changes to clinical trials.



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