To Know More About Role, Sign & Symptoms, Risk Factor

by Barry Smith Avam Cancer Specialists

Oncologist Doctors are treated for cancer who focus on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cancer. An Oncologist Doctor will work with the multidisciplinary care team to create a treatment plan that’s best for the patients.

An Oncologist Doctor manages care all over the course of the disease and starts with the diagnosis. Their role includes:

Describe the cancer diagnosis and their stage.
Inform about treatment options and their choices.
To manage the symptoms and side effects of cancer and their treatment.
To provide quality of care.

Multidisciplinary care team also includes other healthcare professionals like pathologists who read laboratory tests, Radiologists who conduct imaging tests, an Oncology Nurse who gives advice on treatment properly and an oncology social worker who provides their services non-medically.

Oncologist Doctors can recommend cancer screening of the breast, cervix, colon and lung screening to find the staging and type of cancer. Signs and Symptoms are depend on the size of cancer and type of cancer.

Risk Factors - There are many risk factors that may cause cancer. Some of these are below:

Tobacco exposure, smokeless tobacco - Increased the risk of cancer like lung, larynx, brain, mouth, throat, bladder, kidney, liver, cervix, rectum, esophagus and acute myeloid leukemia.
Alcohol consumption - Increased risk of cancers like mouth, throat, esophagus, liver, larynx, and breast.
Obesity - Increased risk of cancer like colon, breast, colon, rectum, endometrium, esophagus, kidney, pancreas and gallbladder.
Infectious Agents - There are certain infectious agents like oncoviruses, bacteria and parasites that can cause cancer.
Immunosuppression - Certain cancers occur at a greatly increased prevalence among people with immunosuppression.

The Oncologist Doctor can recommend diagnostic and staging workup depending on the size and type of malignancy. Treatment options also depend on the size and type of malignancy.

Malignant Hematology is one type of cancer. Some hematological malignancies are Lymphoma, Myeloma, Leukemias, Hemochromatosis, Asplenia, Hypersplenism, Monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance.

Malignant Hematology specialists can treat bleeding disorders, hemoglobinopathies, bone marrow transplantation, stem cell transplantation and work of blood bank and blood transfusion.

Symptoms of blood cancer can include fevers, chills, rigors, coughing, and chest pain. It can also include high frequency of infectious illnesses, constant fatigue, weakness or night sweats, difficulty in breathing, changes in appetite or nausea, swollen painless lymph nodes in the groin, armpits or neck. Chemotherapy, stem cell transplant and radiation therapy are the main treatment option for malignant hematology disease.

Blood Specialist Doctor refers to the study of blood’s physiology. It is also called as Hematologist-Oncologists.

There are four types of blood components - white blood cells, red blood cells, platelets, and plasma. But these components may also specify the presence of abnormalities, which lead to blood cancer and these abnormalities are treated by blood specialist doctor or Hematologist-Oncologists. Blood Specialist Doctors treat Hodgkin lymphoma, Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, leukemia, multiple myeloma, sickle cell disease, Iron deficiency anemia, clotting disorders, thalassemia, polycythemia vera, hemophilia, von Willebrand disease. The treatment plan will depend on the type of blood cancer, the patient's overall health and their stage. The most common treatments for blood cancers are recommended bone marrow transplant, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy.