What is the difference between a Surgical Oncologist and a General Surgeon?
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Surgical Oncologists are board-certified in General Surgery and have undergone additional specialty training in cancer surgery. Furthermore, each Surgical Oncologist focuses his or her clinical practice on management of only one or two types of cancer. Thus, surgical oncologists offer a very high degree of specialization and expertise. Cancer surgery is generally considered complex surgery and published data have demonstrated that hospitals and surgeons with the highest volume experience with specific operations have the lowest complication and death rates.
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