Word: oncologist
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...body, were diagnosed in some 6% of breast-cancer patients. Today the ratio is closer to 20%, largely because of advances in detection techniques. Yet the treatment of choice is still surgery followed by radiation. "We may be far overtreating our patients," says Dr. Julie Gralow, an oncologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. "We've now got women being diagnosed with tumors that probably never would have been treated if we didn't have mammography. They probably would have lived long, natural, healthy lives never knowing they had breast cancer...
...those are the guidelines to stick with, says Dr. David Decker, an oncologist specializing in breast cancer at the William Beaumont Hospital in metro Detroit. "I tell patients to continue following the recommendations from the American Cancer Society and the NCI," he says...
...Kelly McMasters, a surgical oncologist at the University of Louisville, is less equivocal about the need for mammograms. "We have the technology to find cancer early and treat it. Not to use that technology is totally irresponsible...
Imagine you are diagnosed with cancer and after discussing your options your oncologist schedules chemotherapy. The drugs, carefully calibrated to be just toxic enough to kill the cancer cells without completely killing you in the process, are your best chance for survival, even recovery...
...busy coping with a lumpectomy. I needed a forum in which to challenge the insurer. Under McCain-Edwards-Kennedy, I would get one. I would be able to demand an arbitration hearing about the company's decision, plead my case before an independent panel and have an oncologist testify that there's no link between lumpy breasts and cancer. If Breaux-Frist-Jeffords were law, the insurer would choose the physicians reviewing my case--an idea that doesn't comfort...