Becker's Healthcare March 10, 2025
“It’s really hard to be a patient with cancer. Patients suffer a lot at home and don’t reach out,” Ethan Basch, MD, said. “Helping to have better communication to address their needs is really meaningful.”
Dr. Basch directs the Cancer Outcomes Research Program at Chapel Hill-based University of North Carolina’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, chief of medical oncology and the Richard M. Goldberg distinguished professor of medicine at UNC School of Medicine.
He recently led a study, published Feb. 7 in Nature Medicine, that assessed the effect of electronic patient-reported symptom management among cancer patients at 52 oncology practices across 26 states.
He told Becker’s the impetus behind the national trial was multiple smaller studies that found providers miss about...
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