Medical oncology is one type of medicine that we have. It will study tumors and cancer. In medical oncology a doctor will treat any type of patient that has cancer or tumors. There are various types of treatments in medical oncology. Therapy, surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and other options exist to try to reduce the size of the tumor or cancer cells.
Medical oncology also takes care of the follow up for someone who has gone into remission. If there is an issue of terminal care needed the medical oncology field will help deal with that. Medical oncology can also include research of new ways to treat cancer and tumors. The doctors have to be able to perform a number of tasks like biopsies and endoscopy to test the mass that has been found.