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Using Social Media to Recruit for Cancer Clinical Trials

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Alicia Staley, survivor and patient advocacy manager of Cure Forward, discusses the potential use of social media to recruit for clinical trials for new cancer treatment.

Alicia Staley, survivor and patient advocacy manager of Cure Forward, discusses the potential use of social media to recruit for clinical trials for new cancer treatment.

Staley explains that the peer-to-peer network that social media offers would be a great tool to connect patients and researchers across the nation and get more enrollment in clinical trials.

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