title: At the center of cancer care. For-profit outpatient centers playing bigger role in treatment, clinical trials.
abstract: New treatments and technological advances mean the vasty majority of cancer patients are receiving their care on an outpatient basis. Increasingly, for-profit cancer centers are providing that care. Although some hospitals have embraced the centers as partners, others see them as interlopers, drawing off lucrative business and threatening patients' continuity of care.
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authors.lastname: Saphir
mesh_terms: D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000600:supply & distribution; D002173:Cancer Care Facilities / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care; D004465:Economic Competition; D019981:Health Care Sector / Q000639:trends; D006269:Health Facilities, Proprietary; D006801:Humans; D008495:Medical Oncology / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D010067:Ownership; D020399:Practice Management / Q000639:trends; D014481:United States