American Society for Radiation Oncology
Breast cancer patients choosing surgery without learning their options
Published in Cancer Weekly, May 1st, 2012
2012 MAY 1 -- Surgeons are not always including radiation oncologists early enough in a patient's treatment decision-making process, leaving some patients uninformed of all of their treatment options and potentially leading to more mastectomies over breast-conserving therapy, according to a study in the April issue of the International Journal of Radiation Oncology'Biology'Physics, the official scientific journal of the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO).
Multidisciplinary collaboration in cancer care is quickly becoming the standard philosophy in treating cancer patients. However, because different specialists have varying opinions on a...
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