More tests, not always best
ASCO's Top Five list for oncology


  • Chemotherapy for patients with advanced cancers who have seen little or no benefit from prior treatment.

  • PET, CT and radionuclide bone scans in low-risk prostate cancer patients.

  • PET, CT and radionuclide bone scans in low-risk breast cancer patients

  • Surveillance testing and imaging for breast cancer survivors with no symptoms

  • White cell-stimulating factors for primary prevention of fever/infection associated with neutropenia (a low number of a type of white blood cells) in low-risk patients

 

 


 

 

 

 

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