Cedars-Sinai Cancer’s model of care ensured patient care amid wildfires

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Over the past five years, Cedars-Sinai Cancer has built an integrated, regional system designed to provide cancer care close to where patients live and work. This model of care, directed by an academic medical center to patients at the community level, proved to be the best possible approach to supporting patients in our 11-million-person catchment area during the worst fire disaster in California history. 

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Dan Theodorescu, MD, PhD
Director and PHASE ONE Foundation Distinguished Chair, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Robert A. Figlin, MD
Steven Spielberg Family Chair in Hematology Oncology, Professor of medicine and biomedical sciences, Deputy director, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Howard M. Sandler, MD
Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Ronald H. Bloom Family Chair in Cancer Therapeutics, Professor, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Joan August, MA
Vice president, Cedars-Sinai Cancer
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Dan Theodorescu, MD, PhD
Director and PHASE ONE Foundation Distinguished Chair, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Robert A. Figlin, MD
Steven Spielberg Family Chair in Hematology Oncology, Professor of medicine and biomedical sciences, Deputy director, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Howard M. Sandler, MD
Chair, Department of Radiation Oncology, Ronald H. Bloom Family Chair in Cancer Therapeutics, Professor, Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Joan August, MA
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