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AR15.COM
6/3/2006 4:20:02 AM EDT
Apparently family doctors in Wisconsin tend not to make appropriate referrals for cancer patients  .   I didn't see that one coming...

Link to info halfway down article


A survey of nearly 700 primary care doctors in Wisconsin found that only 11 percent would refer a patient with advanced lung cancer to a cancer specialist and only 25 percent would refer a woman with advanced breast cancer.

"We also found a general lack of knowledge about the benefits of newer treatments" that can help such patients, said Dr. Timothy Wassenaar of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who reported on the study at the cancer meeting.