And the problem is, no one - not even the world's top oncologist - can tell the difference.
Rowan Chlebowski, the study's lead investigator and chief oncologist from the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, said in a statement.
One would think, then, that when my oncologist sat by my bedside to meet me, I would not immediately demand information on survival statistics.
As an oncologist, my goal is to treat patients as I would wish to be treated.
“It’s the biggest bubble you’ve ever seen, ” said Dr. Mark Ratain, an oncologist at the University of Chicago.
Can you tell me who I am now? I never asked my oncologist that question. Probably she would have thought I was joking, the way I always was.
The oncologist invented a new kind of interferon to prevent cancer.
I changed my work schedule,found transportation,an oncologist,cardiologist,hospice care,medical equipment,a caregiver and bather.
Although your regular doctor may continue to be your personal physician, most often he or she will temporarily turn your treatment over to an oncologist or hematologist for active treatment.
At present, most pathologist and clinical oncologist think all of them have a transfer risk, there is no absolute benign gist.
"Changes are a normal part of the evolutionary process," says oncologist William Haywar.
Marisa C. Weiss, M.D., breast radiation oncologist, Lankenau Hospital, Thomas Jefferson University Health System, Philadelphia, pa.
Under Part B's loopy reimbursement system, the more a drug costs, the more the oncologist who prescribes it is paid.
Scientific optimism after the second world war led a leading American oncologist, Sidney Farber, to talk in 1962 of the underlying “singularity” of cancer, and to postulate a “universal cure”.
"There is a sense that we are overtreating some patients and undertreating others, " says pediatric oncologist and study co-author James Ferrara of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
