|Articles|January 29, 2021

The COVID-19 Pandemic Has Disrupted Cancer Trials

Author(s)Aislinn Antrim, Assistant Editor

Pharmacy Times interviewed Randall A. Oyer, MD, president of the Association of Community Cancer Centers about the effect of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on cancer clinical trials.

Pharmacy Times^® interviewed Randall A. Oyer, MD, president of the Association of Community Cancer Centers and medical director at Ann B. Barshinger Cancer Institute, Penn Medicine in Lancaster PA about the effect of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on cancer clinical trial.

The full conversation can be found in the video above.

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