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Prescribing Patterns of Surgical Oncologists: Are We Surgeons, Oncologists, or Both?

Results of a Society of Surgical Oncology Survey

Johns Hopkins Medical Institution, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Osler 624, Baltimore, Maryland

Correspondence: Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Charles M. Balch, MD, FACS; E-mail: balchch{at}hjmi.edu

Although surgical treatment is the centerpiece of our specialty, what differentiates surgical oncology from other areas in surgery is the oncology experience and expertise needed in dealing with all aspects of cancer management in a multidisciplinary fashion. ... The salient feature of differentiation is that surgical oncology is both a technical and cognitive specialty involving a chronic disease process.