Disparities in cancer outcomes due to COVID-19

What The Viewpoint Says: This Viewpoint calls for greater attention to racial and socioeconomic health disparities affecting patients with cancer in the setting of COVID-19.

Authors: Onyinye D. Balogun, M.D., of Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, is the corresponding author.

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(doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.3327)

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