Do Radiologists Have Stage Fright? Tumor Staging and How We Can Add Value to the Care of Patients with Cancer.

Christine M Glastonbury Priya R Bhosale Peter L Choyke Carl J D'Orsi Jeremy J Erasmus Ritu R Gill Suresh K Mukherji David M Panicek Lawrence H Schwartz Rathan M Subramaniam Daniel C Sullivan

Radiology

From the Departments of Radiology of the University of California-San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94143 (C.M.G.); University of Texas-MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Tex (P.R.B., J.J.E.); National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Md (P.L.C.); Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Ga (C.J.D.); Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass (R.R.G.); Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich (S.K.M.); Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY (D.M.P.); Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY (L.H.S.); Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Md (R.M.S.); and Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC (D.C.S.).

Published: January 2016

With current shifts in our health care system and a growing national discussion around the concept of the value of imaging, it is time for radiologists and nuclear medicine physicians to recognize and accept our role in the multidisciplinary oncology team.

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