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Job Description
Job Responsibilities:
- Discuss treatment options with patients, supervise the therapy and manage any complications of disease and/or treatment that may arise and assist in pain management
- Coordinate a course of treatment for cancer patients with the rest of their oncology team, which can include nurses, physician assistants, social workers, rehabilitation therapists, dietitians, radiologists, surgeons and pathologists.
- Keep records of patients' test results and physical examinations,
- Write prescriptions, providing specific cancer information to patients, monitoring treatment plans and improving patients' quality of life.
- Supervise, train & monitor the Junior Doctors.
- Medical oncologists are trained in the integration of systemic therapies, such as:
- Chemotherapy.
- Endocrine therapy.
- Biological therapy.
- Immunotherapy.
