William Dale joined City of Hope as a clinical professor in the Department of Supportive Care Medicine.Dale is a board-certified geriatrician and palliative medicine physician with a doctorate in health policy. He completed his medical and graduate school training at the University of Chicago and did his residency in internal medicine and fellowship training in geriatrics at the University of Pittsburgh.
How’s this for a paradox: The better cancer centers become at keeping patients alive, the more expensive cancer care becomes. This brutal tradeoff hits harder in rural areas, where the cancer burden is higher and the investigator and clinical trial representation is lower.
