War in Ukraine Disrupts Trials, Cancer Care

Elie Dolgin • May 2, 2022

The war in Ukraine is disrupting routine patient care, clinical trials, and basic cancer research—with potentially dire consequences. Physicians and researchers are helping patients as best they can, but cancer mortality is expected to rise in the country, and the impact on research could slow medical progress.

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