U.S. Faces Shortage of Cancer Doctors:  Report
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TUESDAY, March 13 (HealthDay News) -- The United States will suffer a significant shortage of cancer doctors over the next two decades, coinciding with an increased need for these specialists by aging Americans, a new report warns.
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Doctors are missing key information they need to make decisions for cancer patients because some drug companies are not publishing clinical trials.
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Cancer doctors received about $275 million from the federal government and the elderly last year as part of a yearlong research project that many doctors believe won't produce any useful findings.
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Doctors may have to take a more active role in addressing the spiritual needs of patients with terminal illnesses, a study suggested on Thursday.
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Breast cancer patients were urged to change their treatment plans more than half the time when they received a second opinion from a team of specialists, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.
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Despite advances in genetic testing,  the U.S. surgeon general on Monday urged Americans to track  down and record cases of cancer, heart disease and other  diseases prevalent in their families.
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A new report calls for the urgent need to improve treatments and find a cure for prostate cancer, a disease that strikes one in six American men.
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A national survey by three top doctors groups says Canadians access to health care is being limited by an extreme shortage of physicians.
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A national shortage of doctors is hitting poor places the hardest, and efforts to bring in foreign physicians to fill the gap are running into a knot of restrictions from the war on terror and the immigration debate.
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Cancer services are failing patients and drastic reform is needed, a report by MPs says.
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The world is suffering an acute shortage of doctors, nurses, and other health workers, according to a global group of health leaders.
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Doctors need to develop a more  organized team approach to prostate cancer, with a clear  outline on how to screen for the disease and to treat it, a  panel of cancer experts said on Wednesday.
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Doctors need to develop a more organized team approach to prostate cancer, with a clear outline on how to screen for the disease and to treat it, a panel of cancer experts said on Wednesday.
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US cancer specialists issued an urgent appeal this weekend for more budget allocations for cancer research, which have been decreasing in the country for four years threatening to delay introduction of new treatments.
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At a time when more people are cured of cancer than ever before, fewer doctors seem willing to say so. They call the cancer undetectable, or in remission. They tell patients they can quit seeing cancer specialists. They quote statistics and say chances are slim that the disease will come back.
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New guidelines restricting the patients that GPs can refer to hospital will mean cancers are missed, warn doctors.
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A recent study says doctors are performing too many unwarranted CT scans, exposing patients to cancer-causing radiation