Finding Cancer Specialists
Tips to Find the Cancer Specialists
Finding Cancer Specialists within a nearby hospital can be a tough job. You may need the help of your friends and family doctors in order to reach the specialised doctor. You need to do a detailed survey and also certain facts must be kept in mind when you try to find the cancer specialists since without his treatment, cancer can assume deadly proportions.
Cancer is a deadly disease which requires a long term treatment as well as perfect medication and that too for a long period of time. So if you have been diagnosed with cancer finding a specialised doctor is the most important step towards the beginning of the treatment. It is sometimes possible that you may know a specialised doctor yourself, or through a family friend or co-worker. You can even ask for a referral from the primary care physician.
Types of Cancer Specialists
If a doctor has received board certification then he can be called a specialist. The cancer specialists may include not just one but a team of doctors like-surgeons, medical oncologists, radiologist. Medical Oncologist specialises in the knowledge of how cancer grows and how it can be treated. He is primarily responsible for your overall medical care during the course of treatment. Radiologist help in interpreting the results of the x-rays, MRI, CT scan and Surgical Oncologists are primarily responsible for conducting biopsies. Radiation Oncologist’s main area is to treat cancer through the help of radiation therapy.
The local hospital too can give you a detailed list of the cancer specialists who work in that particular hospital or any other close by hospitals. National Cancer Institute which is a component of National Institute of Health can provide a list of those doctors who work in their hospitals. Registered users are given the advantage of searching the cancer center with the help of location, type of cancer center as well as the name of cancer center. At many cancer institutes a complete directory is also maintained which can help the user to search by the name of the physician, state and area of specialisation.
Where to find the Cancer Specialists
The American Society of Clinical Oncology, the American College of Surgeons, the American Medical Association, maintains a complete online as well as printed database of the cancer specialists along with their specialisation and board certification. The American Board of Medical Specialities also publishes a directory which has the name of medical certified doctors along with the name, speciality and their education. This is easily available at their official website. Some of the public and medical libraries also maintain directories of doctors and their field of specialisation. Yellow pages which may be easily available anywhere in the locality has a complete list of doctors under the “physicians” section.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality provides a complete booklet describing as to how to choose a doctor, a health plan and the hospital. It gives detailed information followed by guidelines which make it even easier to decide which are the best doctor and the best hospital for you.
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