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Chemo for rural patients safe to deliver under remote supervision

16 November 2015
By Kate McDonald

Chemotherapy can be delivered to patients in rural settings under the supervision of remote medical oncologists as safely as to their urban counterparts, new research shows.

Researchers led by Sabe Sabesan and Bryan Chan of the Townsville Cancer Centre (TCC) compared the dose intensity and toxicity profiles for patients undergoing chemotherapy at the TCC with those for patients treated at Mt Isa Hospital, who were supervised by the same medical oncologists by video.

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