About Clinical Oncology by Kathryn Dawson
Oncology is a very large field and consequently it is broken down into further specialist areas. An oncologist may be a specialist in the area of surgical cancer treatment, a clinical oncologist on the other hand involves the non-surgical aspect of oncology for the treatment of cancer. Oncology specialises in diagnosing and treating all different types of cancer. As well as the treatment of cancer, oncology includes a large amount of research into the cause of the condition, with scientists looking for ways to understand why it occurs, what can be done to prevent it and how it can be treated more successfully. The strides made in oncology over the past 50 years has been tremendous with valuable breakthroughs being made post by haiyan701. Even patients suffering from rare forms of cancer have much greater survival rates than they ever have before bringing new hope to all cancer sufferers. Clinical trials are an important part of ... Read more »