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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Oral Chemo Benefits Patients—and Pharmacists

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Philip Schwieterman, PharmD

Chicago—Oral chemotherapy has been a boon to many of the cancer patients who regularly visit Benyam Muluneh, PharmD, a clinical pharmacist at the University of North Carolina (UNC) Medical Center, in Chapel Hill. As one patient recently told him, “it means a lot not to be attached to a pole and to be able to go home and garden, and work.”

Growing use of oral chemotherapy also has created expanded roles for clinical oncology pharmacists like Dr.