Need for Medical Oncologist's Approval?
I have just learned, to my intense dismay, of an apparently widespread, yet incorrect, belief of many lymphoma patients.
Iit is true that most lymphoma patients are under the care of a medical oncologist. However, the lymphoma patient who wishes to have a consultation with a physician experienced in radioimmunotherapy does NOT NEED TO GET PERMISSION FROM THE MEDICAL ONCOLOGIST for such consultatlion. I have learned that many lymphoma patients have not had the benefit of such consultation (and treatment with RIT) because they have not obtained "permission" from the medical oncologist.
I do, however, understand that an individual patient may have specific requirements or restrictions related to his/her medical insurence. These generally relate to the primary care physician, not the medical oncologist, giving approval for the RIT consultatlion.
Mort