To the great benefit of patients, even if not the privileges and incomes of oncologists.
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Oncologists are in the business of providing hope to patients with incurable advanced disease.
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Over the years Radiation Therapy has bought out 30 gynecological oncologists, surgeons and urologists.
But when all the oncologists were proceeding on this basis, they unwittingly created a work jam.
We were sent to oncologists at a great facility in Culver City, CA called City of Angels.
"I wanted to go out fighting, " Giusti said in a speech to thousands of oncologists in 2003.
More specifically, oncologists need time to adjust to new regulations, time to plan for new reimbursement schemes.
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Kennedy said he selected a team of neuro-oncologists from Boston's Massachusetts General and Duke University Medical Center.
More than forty per cent of oncologists report offering treatments that they believe are unlikely to work.
Oncologists know about the drug and its benefits, as well as its cost, and continue to prescribe it.
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Many relevant the studies will be presented at the May meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncologists.
Because radiation oncologists do not diagnose cancer, they rely on referring physicians such as surgeons, urologists and gynecologists.
Oncologists convince their patients to endure chemotherapy with its well-known side effects of going bald and extreme nausea.
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Ultimately, the 14-member advisory panel of oncologists agreed with the FDA that AstraZeneca hadn't proved that Iressa reduces symptoms.
In one of his better moves, Dolan refocused Bristol on medical markets served by specialists like rheumatologists and oncologists.
And many people, me included, would argue that those oncologists who do make this much money are hardly overpaid.
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Oncologists were convinced that super doses of chemo followed by transfusions of bone marrow could help breast cancer patients.
How many genes should oncologists test patient tumors for before using a drug?
Oncologists first pay handsomely for four years of medical school, then spend at least six years in residency and fellowship.
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Otherwise oncologists, who face important fixed expenditures in the short run, might be forced to make some very unfortunate decisions.
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Essentially, oncologists as spoken about in the article above, are writing Zytiga when the patient has not yet failed traditional chemo.
Now they can get an earlier peek with software that has been tested by oncologists at several institutions across the country.
Its cancer drugs are pitched to oncologists, its psychiatric treatments to psychiatrists.
Most American oncologists don't think they'll ever get their hands on UFT.
Physicians could then better decide whether to refer women at higher risk for ovarian cancer to gynecologic oncologists for evaluation and surgery.
AstraZeneca has also offered Iressa for free to more than 5, 000 patients through their oncologists in a compassionate-use program for lung cancer.
The then 57-year-old insurance underwriter got the names of three oncologists.
Until the 1980s radiation oncologists could only crudely estimate where to aim based on the position of nearby bones in 2-D X rays.
Priority Healthcare, in Altamonte Springs, Florida, is a national distributor of specialty pharmaceuticals and medical supplies to oncologists, outpatient dialysis centers and home care markets.
Its doctors had performed many of Amgen's clinical trials and helped Amgen's sales representatives and middle managers understand how oncologists work in a private practice.
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