Consumers Find Choice Greater in Treatment -- Programs Can Help Patients Decide How to Tackle Cancer
The Commercial Appeal (2007-Current) › June 15, 2010
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WASHINGTON - D.J. Soviero wanted the least treatment that would beat back her small, early-stage breast cancer, but her first doctor insisted she had only one option: tumor removal followed by radiation and chemotherapy.
Then she found a novel program at the University of California, San Francisco, that gave her an unbiased evaluation of the pros and cons of all treatment options.See the full content of this document
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Consumers Find Choice Greater in Treatment -- Programs Can Help Patients Decide How to Tackle Cancer
"I realized that I didn't need to use a sledgehammer. It was my choice," said Soviero, of San Francisco, who went with the lumpectomy and radiatio...
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