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Dr. Jared Weiss is an Associate Professor of Clinical Research for Hematology/Oncology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, NC. He completed fellowship in Hematology and Oncology at the University of Pennsylvania and residency in Internal Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, MA. He received his Doctor of Medicine at Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, CT and his B.S. in neuroscience at Brown University, in Providence, RI.

ASCO 2018 Roundtable - Head and Neck Cancer - Attempts to Decrease Toxicity of Chemoradiotherapy
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Dr. Jared WeissDr. Joshua Bauml

 

Drs. Jared Weiss, Associate Professor, of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, and Josh Bauml, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, gathered post meeting to discuss new information from ASCO 2018 regarding head and neck cancers.  

 


In this roundtable video, the doctors discuss attempts to decrease the toxicity of chemoradiotherapy in head and neck cancers. 


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