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Hybrid Academic-Community Cancer Centers Take Shape, MedPage Today, August 31, 2015

“An alternative cancer center model has been emerging at a number of healthcare institutions around the country that offers patients local access to more and earlier-phase clinical trials and better care than they might receive in traditional community settings, a MedPage Today investigation found.

These new hybrid centers also provide oncologists an opportunity to practice medicine and conduct clinical research without some of the bureaucratic layers inherent in academe.”

Read more about Inova Dwight and Martha Schar Cancer Institute in MedPage Today.

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