Many Primary Care Docs Don’t Know Long-Term Effects of Chemo: Survey

<p>WEDNESDAY, May 16 (HealthDay News) Many primary care doctors
dont know a long-term side effects of a chemotherapy treatments that
cancer survivors underneath their caring might have been given, a new survey
found.
On a other hand, many oncologists yet not all are familiar
with a side effects of 4 common treatments used to provide breast and
colon cancer, according to a formula of a consult being presented at
the arriving annual assembly of a American Society of Clinical Oncology
(ASCO) in Chicago.
While oncologists ordinarily brand a categorical late effects of four
common cancer drugs, primary caring providers did not, investigate author Dr.
Larissa Nekhlyudov pronounced during a Wednesday news conference. This is not
surprising in that primary caring providers have opposite training and
exposure to chemotherapy drugs, she noted.
However, these commentary stress that in a transition of patients
from oncology to primary caring settings, primary caring providers should be
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