Word: oncologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Craig Henderson, assistant professor of Medicine at the Medical School and oncologist at the Farber Cancer Institute, said this week there are 90,000 reported cases of breast cancer each year. Henderson said most breast cancer patients undergo simple mastectomies or modified radical mastectomies, but thousands of women still have the "old-fashioned, disfiguring" radical mastectomy...
While Frei brims with oliched pronouncements on the history of cancer treatment over the last ten years, he also recognizes the intense controversy in the medical community surrounding the glorification of the medical oncologist amid the wash of federal spending. "Progress and controversy," Frei wrote recently, "are handmaidens...
Isselbacher indicates that such "jurisdictional disputes" between clinicians, oncologists and basic scientists are inveitable, especially because the medical oncologist, like Frei, must have a special temperament just to work in a field where such a large percentage of one's patients die. "The dedication and commitment of treating cancer patients is not easy," Isselbacher explains. "I can appreciate that someone who does not live with cancer patients all the time might prove frustrating to Dr. Frei...