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Princeton's WordNet

  1. oncologistnoun

    a specialist in oncology

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  1. oncologistnoun

    A doctor or scientist who specializes in oncology.

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  1. oncologist

    An oncologist is a medical professional who specializes in diagnosing, treating, and preventing cancer. They use methods such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy, or surgical procedures and follow up with patients providing recovery care or palliative treatments.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of oncologist in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of oncologist in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of oncologist in a Sentence

  1. Alex Trebek:

    You know my oncologist tried to cheer me up the other day, he said, Alex, even though the two-year survival rate is only 7 %, he was certain that one year from now, the two of us would be sitting in his office celebrating my second anniversary of survival.

  2. David Lew:

    At first, I said no because I had done trials before and it didn’t help and it hurt, and it wasn’t fun. But, then I saw my wife and my oncologist after I said I didn’t want to do it. My oncologist hugged my wife and it felt like I wasn’t in the room anymore. They were just accepting that I was gone already. So, I thought, ‘Maybe I should try this.’.

  3. Ramin Javahery:

    It was just so not within my thought processes that you could have her sibling coming in, i assumed it was someone else. …Then I was told by the oncologist about what was going on, and I’m like, ‘Oh, my God.’.

  4. Andy Herber:

    The oncologist said that his immune system won't be able to handle fighting off any of the infections, so we pulled him entirely from school.

  5. Otis Brawley:

    You get your breast surgeons and your breast radiation oncologist and your breast medical oncologist, and they treat the breast cancer, and then you get the head-neck oncologists, including the radiation oncologist and the head-neck medical oncologist, and they treat the head and neck cancer, now, those two groups of people are going to have to talk to each other, and they’re going to have to work to coordinate with each other. But you don’t treat the patient differently other than that coordination.

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