ONCOLOGIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oncologist mean? 

• ONCOLOGIST (noun)
  The noun ONCOLOGIST has 1 sense:

1. a specialist in oncology

  Familiarity information: ONCOLOGIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ONCOLOGIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A specialist in oncology

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("oncologist" is a kind of...):

medical specialist; specialist (practices one branch of medicine)

Derivation:

oncology (the branch of medicine concerned with the study and treatment of tumors)

 Context examples 

The first in a series of oncologists that are performing an assessment.

(Oncologist 1, NCI Thesaurus)

In an earlier study, Stanford neuro-oncologist Michelle Monje.

(Scientists find promising drug combination against lethal childhood brain cancers, National Institutes of Health)

An oncologist performing the assessment that is given the designation of one.

(Oncologist 1, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

The second in a series of oncologists that are performing an assessment.

(Oncologist 2, NCI Thesaurus)

Such systems, which have the potential of being tailored to specific diseases or individual patients, could be an important tool for oncologists.

(Novel nanogels hold promise for improved drug delivery to cancer patients, National Science Foundation)

An oncologist performing the assessment that is given the designation of two.

(Oncologist 2, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Some oncologists specialize in a particular type of cancer treatment.

(Medical oncologist, NCI Thesaurus)

A medical oncologist also gives supportive care and may coordinate treatment given by other specialists.

(Medical oncologist, NCI Dictionary)

Dr. Emily Albright is a surgical oncologist at the University of Missouri Health Care.

(Study Shows Chemotherapy Not Needed To Treat Many Breast Cancers, Carol Pearson/VOA)

Categorising patients into one of these groups helps oncologists choose an appropriate treatment, with some groups requiring more aggressive therapy than others.

(New method to classify brain tumour in children, SciDev.Net)