Essentially, what has been done is to automate the knowledge base of an oncologist.
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Armstrong is a medical oncologist at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center in Baltimore.
Eight of the strongest studies came from the same researcher: oncologist Dr. Lennart Hardell in Sweden.
Wolchok, an oncologist at New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, thinks there is a connection.
In the battle against breast cancer, Indiana University oncologist Kathy Miller has taken the lead.
"We just don't make enough of it" according to consultant oncologist Professor Neil Burnet.
D. oncologist--and son, he helped his father, Paul, run the Caribbean school for 30 years.
"Toxic deaths cannot be more than 5%, " says Roman Perez-Soler , an oncologist at Mt.
Dr. Paul Marcoux, an oncologist, met with her and her family to discuss the findings.
Brentjens, a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, and lead author of the study.
"I'm very pleased, " says Leonard Saltz , an oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital in New York City.
The oncologist noted wryly how much easier it would have been for her just to prescribe the chemotherapy.
Dr. WAYNE KEISER (Oncologist): I did feel and continue to feel extremely frustrated.
The immune system is "phenomenally complicated, " says oncologist Jeffrey Weber of the H.
The always incisive David Gorski, an oncologist, takes a detailed look at the data for Avastin in breast cancer.
"You have to realize insulin is lifesaving, " says Michael Pollak, a McGill University oncologist who served on the panel.
"This makes the oncologist's job harder, because it lengthens that discussion, " she says.
West Virginia-based Schiffler Cancer Center radiation oncologist Gregory Merrick says it will revolutionize how radio seed therapy is done.
Dr Amy Roy, consultant clinical oncologist, said this has led to an 80 to 90% cure with some cancers.
He continued flying back quarterly to see UCLA oncologist Antoni Ribas for infusions.
Susan Hellman , Genentech's chief medical officer, was an oncologist, and speaks passionately about the need for new cancer drugs.
Within twenty-four hours, Sara was scheduled to see a radiation oncologist for whole-brain radiation to try to reduce the metastases.
UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center oncologist Dennis Slamon thinks he knows why Iressa flopped in two large trials: lack of targeting.
She said she was "very happy" and looking forward to 2011 after receiving the news by letter from her oncologist.
In June, in a last-ditch effort to save her life, her oncologist recommended an experimental pill from Pfizer called SU11248.
Dr Judith Kingston, paediatric oncologist at Great Ormond Street Hospital said they were now trying the treatment in other brain tumours.
"It really got caught up in technicalities, " says Howard Burris III, an oncologist at the Sarah Cannon Cancer Center in Nashville.
Emory University oncologist Ruth O'Regan, who did one of the trials, calls the results "very impressive" and uncommon in advanced cases.
That's when UCSD oncologist Ivor Royston and research assistant Howard Birndorf founded Hybritech to explore using monoclonal antibodies to fight cancer.
The team, led by radiation oncologist Benjamin Smith, said that was nearly double the 2.2% of women who received whole-breast irradiation.
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