Article Excerpt: …with the initial urgency of the pandemic in the past, public health agencies including NCI are examining ways to maximize the benefits of telehealth, from cancer screening to survivorship. NCI’s former director, Norman “Ned” Sharpless, MD, inspired agency officials to undertake a widespread effort to accelerate and optimize use of telehealth, (Robin C.) Vanderpool (chief of the health communication and informatics research branch in the division of cancer control and population sciences at NCI) said. “Dr. Sharpless came to our division and said, ‘We need take advantage of this one silver lining coming out of the pandemic.’” she said. “‘We need to understand what’s happening in the cancer space with telehealth.’”
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