Word: oncologist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really slow-growing cancer," said Dr. Roy M. Ambinder, a clinical oncologist...
Cancer specialists, for their part, haven't neglected the issue. "Despite what this ABC show may have reported, there's no clear scientific evidence to date that cell phones are linked to brain cancer," says Dr. Lisa DeAngelis, a neuro-oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City--a view, she adds, that will be reaffirmed in an upcoming study by her colleagues...
...studies, an act of good corporate citizenship that seemed to signal a willingness to keep paying for transplant treatments in breast-cancer cases. A doctor working with Kaiser-Permanente, the nation's largest HMO, offers more direct reassurance. "It will be up to the doctor and the patient," predicts oncologist Louis Fehrenbacher...
...years of data, is bound to stir up controversy, however, because it suggests a minimalist approach for patients with no new symptoms. Doctors must always ask themselves whether a given test will do their patients any good, says Dr. Al Benson, the panel's co-chair and a medical oncologist at Northwestern University in Chicago. After all, he notes, "some of these tests are not entirely benign...
...year in the U.S. about 13,000 women develop cervical cancer and 4,800 die, making it the 11th leading cancer killer of American women. In 40% of newly diagnosed cases, the cancer has spread far enough that it requires treatment with radiation, says Dr. Edward Trimble, a gynecological oncologist at the NCI. "If all those women also received chemotherapy, we could probably save 1,000 to 2,000 lives" a year, he notes...