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What do oncologists do?
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Take care of cancer: There are 3 types of oncologists: surgical, medical and radiation therapy oncologists. The surgical oncologist removes malignant lesions hopefully as a curative procedure or to debulk for further therapy. The medical oncologists offers chemo in an adjuvant or therapeutic format and the radiation oncologists treat primary RT sensitive tumors for cure or metastatic tumors for palliation.
Answered 5/16/2017
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