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ASTRO survey: Radiation oncology patients are presenting with more advanced-stage cancers

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The likelihood that a patient walking through the doors of a radiation oncology clinic has advanced disease has increased since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a survey from the American Society for Radiation Oncology found.

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