{"id":1118,"date":"2008-06-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/condition-breast-cancer-how-important-is-the-size-of-the-hospital-providing-my-breast-cancer-treatment\/"},"modified":"2008-06-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T00:00:00","slug":"condition-breast-cancer-how-important-is-the-size-of-the-hospital-providing-my-breast-cancer-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1millionbestdownloads.com\/condition-breast-cancer-how-important-is-the-size-of-the-hospital-providing-my-breast-cancer-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"How Important Is the Size of the Hospital Providing My Breast Cancer Treatment?"},"content":{"rendered":"

At some hospitals, a team of doctors will review your case.(IMAGE SOURCE\/VEER)Bigger is often better when it comes to selecting a hospital for your breast cancer treatment, but that's not always the case.<\/p>\n

"If you're living in a small town and the nearest oncology center is a hundred miles away, you probably would want to get a second opinion<\/a> from a major center," such as one of the National Cancer Institute's designated comprehensive cancer centers<\/a> or a large hospital-based cancer center where multidisciplinary consultation can be obtained, says Edward M. Wolin, MD, a medical oncologist at the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

At these larger centers, your case is often reviewed by a team of experts, with your lab slides and X-rays "shown on a big screen along with the pathology report—everybody looks at everything, and all of the different inputs are put in together," says Dr. Wolin.<\/p>\n

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