Shortage of cancer doctors in coming years
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The United States is heading toward a major shortage of cancer doctors by 2020 as the population ages and the medical profession struggles to replace retiring oncologists, researchers said on Tuesday.
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The finding will help doctors make better treatment  decisions and may give rise to a new way of halting the advance  of breast cancer, said Dr. Sohail Tavazoie, an oncologist at  Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.
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By Dr Koshy Philip  IF statistics are anything to go by, alarmingly more lives have been lost to cancer than to war. And this status quo may continue.
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A debate over a hypothesis that cancers are fed by cancerous stem cells could affect the path of research.
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The treatment that more cancer patients receive may one day depend on their genes. With an increasing number of biological clues available, doctors hope they will be able to customize more patients' treatments based on their genetic profiles.
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WINNIPEG -- If Canadians face a shortage of doctors or nurses in a few years&#39; time, it will be the fault of the provinces, not Ottawa, federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh said yesterday.
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Breast cancer patients are not receiving the best follow-up care because guidelines are lacking, claim experts.
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One in six American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer this year. It&#39;s a more common disease among men than breast cancer is among women.
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Cancer care across England is poorly  coordinated, funding varies widely from one area to another and  doctors are not referring patients for treatment quickly  enough, a parliamentary report said Wednesday.
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Nearly half of District residents, many with chronic diseases, live in areas with a critical shortage of doctors to provide basic care.
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NEW YORK  - The number of breast cancer surgeries that a hospital performs seems to be associated with the likelihood of subsequently dying from breast cancer, Milwaukee-based researchers have found.
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A worsening shortage of doctors, insurance premium costs growing faster than incomes, a gray and sick population scattered over a rural state - darker days lie
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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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A growing number of students, especially women, are interested in becoming doctors, reversing a seven-year downward trend, according to a review of medical school applications in this
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The news that US Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist has cancer has raised a neglected but weighty factor this election: The next president will very likely choose one or more new Supreme Court justices.
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A major survey of Canadian doctors revealed what most Canadians already know first-hand - there aren&#39;t enough family doctors for everyone.
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Cancer care across England is poorly coordinated, funding varies widely from one area to another and doctors are not referring patients for treatment quickly enough, a parliamentary report said Wednesday.