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What is the scope of practice for a surgical oncologist?
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Various: Typically surgical resection of a variety of tumors. Typically breast cancer surgery, melanoma, GI tumors, resection of cancer metastases to various organs, resection of liver tumors, pancreas. Usually not gyn and not head and neck, and usually not lung surgery as those require a different training.
Answered 3/22/2015
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Varies: Surgical oncologists perform surgery on cancer. However there is no uniform set of surgeries or organs that all surgical oncologist will operate on. Many specialize on a narrow set of diseases and surgeries. Some have chemotherapy privileges and get involved in non-surgical care.
Answered 3/11/2015
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Complete management: When the original program was developed at Sloan Ketteting at the end of World War 2, it was a comprehensive 3 1/2 yr program after general surgery with orthopedic oncology, urologic oncology, Gyn oncology, hepatic surgery, breast, pancreatic and colorectal Ca. It also included sarcomqa and exenterative surgery. Few programs are comprehensive anymore.
Answered 1/4/2016
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