medical oncologist

medical oncologist

An oncologist who diagnoses and treats cancer with chemotherapy, hormones, biologicals or immunologic agents. The medical oncologist becomes a cancer patient’s de facto primary care giver and co-ordinates treatment provided by other specialists.

medical oncologist

 Oncology An oncologist who diagnoses and treats cancer with chemotherapy, hormones, biologicals, or immunologic agents; the MO becomes a cancer Pt's de facto primary care giver, and coordinates treatment provided by other specialists. See Oncologist, Radiation oncologist. Cf Surgical oncologist.