oncologist

You can't deduce that because oncologist patients often die in 18 month, oncologist are lesser doctors.

You may have more than one oncologist: I've got a surgeon, a radiation oncologist, and a GI oncologist.

Just like you may well be more helpful to someone with a similar condition than the general oncologist.

Find an Oncologist that has treated this specific type of cancer 100s of times if not 1000s.

In my case, a family member went to a local oncologist who prescribed a series of treatments.

It's going to be used as a tool, not a replacement for an oncologist.

The surgeons and oncologist where happy to keep going, but he was dying, and nothing the doctors could do would change that.

Avastin is most certainly not a breakthrough, I don't know any oncologist that considers it as such.

Your oncologist's only goal is to extend your life, he doesn't care about what you value and what kind of life you want.

In the real world, the answer is no because, just like hiring me as an oncologist, it is seen as too much risk.

I'm an oncologist, and with no conflicts of interest I can assure you these drugs are a bona fide breakthrough.

Last year when I got my treatment the study was not finished but I asked my oncologist about it anyway.

Basically a radio-oncologist or a dosimetrist contours (manually, with a pen) organs on every slice of a CT scan and then we just say "We want this much radiation in the tumour, and less than Y units in surrounding healthy tissues".

> Imagine an oncologist saying, "Yes, you have cancer, but I have a Website with some pictures and words, that will fix you right up." This isn't likely, because, unlike a psychological condition, cancer is a real disease.