Dr. D. Randolph Drosick is president of Oncology Hematology Care, Inc. in Cincinnati. He is a practicing medical oncologist and hematologist and also serves on the Karen Wellington Foundation Medical Advisory Board.
Consider the following scenario: A cancer patient comes into a community oncology clinic for their regularly scheduled chemotherapy treatment. After concluding the pre-treatment evaluation, the oncologist determines that the patient’s dose should be adjusted. Perhaps they need a higher dose than what we previously administered — a fairly common occurrence in the world of cancer […]
