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14-09-2022 | Global Health Services Research

Supply and Demand: Is the Surgical Oncology Match in a Bear Market?

Author: Dan G. Blazer III, MD

Published in: Annals of Surgical Oncology | Issue 13/2022

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Advanced training in cancer surgery has been recognized as a specialty since well before board certification in Complex General Surgical Oncology. Informal training in surgical oncology goes back at least to the 1930s and 1940s, when surgeons could train at cancer hospitals such as the MD Anderson Hospital or the Memorial Hospital for the Treatment of Cancer and Allied Diseases.¹ …

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Title: Supply and Demand: Is the Surgical Oncology Match in a Bear Market?
Author: Dan G. Blazer III, MD
Publication date: 14-09-2022
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Published in: Annals of Surgical Oncology / Issue 13/2022
Print ISSN: 1068-9265
Electronic ISSN: 1534-4681
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1245/s10434-022-12544-7

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