Radiation therapy forms an integral part of the care of 50% to 60% of cancer patients in the United States. It plays a key role in the multidisciplinary curative treatment of many patients with head and neck, thoracic, genitourinary, gynecologic,…
Introduction As our understanding of cancer has grown, medical oncology has evolved as a subspecialty of internal medicine since the 1960s. Initially, few treatments beyond surgery and a handful of toxic chemotherapy agents were available to cancer patients. Medical oncologists…
Introduction Surgery remains a pillar of multimodality therapy for long-term survival in virtually all patients with solid tumors. For surgery to be effective, however, patients must be selected properly so that nontherapeutic surgery is avoided. In the current era of…
Introduction Multidisciplinary care teams are those that are composed of members from multiple different medical specialties working together to achieve the highest quality of care for the patient. Such teams are particularly needed in complex environments such as cancer hospitals.…