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  • noun oncology A doctor or scientist who specializes in oncology.

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  • noun a specialist in oncology

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Examples

  • She remembers little of the conversation after hearing the word "oncologist."

    NYT > Home Page By SAM BORDEN 2011

  • I call my oncologist after cancer, you work with your oncologist as primary physician, for like, 3 years and say Doc, my feet! god damn.

    Archive 2005-02-01 Charles Statman 2005

  • They caught my cervical cancer in the early stages and I was referred to an oncologist who worked with PP patients.

    ABC News: Top Stories 2012

  • So while I was awaiting test results and being referred to an oncologist another scary word to me, I continued to run.

    Runners Jack Canfield 2010

  • So while I was awaiting test results and being referred to an oncologist another scary word to me, I continued to run.

    Runners Jack Canfield 2010

  • No member of the panel, though, was an oncologist, which is another issue that a lot of people brought up.

    CNN Transcript Nov 19, 2009 2009

  • This is very interesting post and timely in that my wife's lung cancer is being treated and our oncologist is a believer in QTwist Quality-Adjusted Time Without Symptoms of Disease or Toxicity of Treatment.

    Why Discussing "Outcomes" is Meaningless 1 Dinosaur 2009

  • No member of the panel, though, was an oncologist, which is another issue that a lot of people brought up.

    CNN Transcript Nov 19, 2009 2009

  • "Our interest converged on p53 like no other molecule," recalls oncologist Richard Elledge of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.

    The Cancer Killer 2008

  • I always knew that the oncologist was a weak-kneed little girl with a self-serving streak.

    A wholehearted "Yes!" Patrick J. Smith 2006

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