Patients participating in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) clinical trials prefer telemedicine visits for their clinical trial care, while healthcare professionals prefer in-person visits due to perceived “inferior quality of care” with telemedicine, according to recent findings published in Clinical Genitourinary Cancer. Sahil D. Doshi, MD, of the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and colleagues conducted the study to explore perspectives on the use of telemedicine in RCC clinical trials as the platform increases in popularity among medical professionals and expands clinical trial access to patients with RCC. ...
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