Home cancer treatment faces challenges post-pandemic

When COVID-19 hit the U.S. in early 2020, radiation oncologist Dr. Justin Bekelman was ready for the challenge.

The director of the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation in Philadelphia and a team of clinicians already had plans in place to start the center’s Cancer Care at Home program. Within six weeks of launching in February 2020, the program went from treating 39 patients at home to more than 300 people.

“When the pandemic peaked…