Cancer treatment today is very much a team effort that emphasizes total care. A wide range of medical specialists, therapists, technicians, counselors, social workers and others become involved in your treatment and your rehabilitation .

Diagnosis  If you have been diagnosed as having cancer, you have already come in contact with several members of the health care team, even if you haven't met them all personally.
• Your cancer symptom may have been detected by your internist or primary physician-whoever it is you call
  when you have a fever, a pain you think should be looked at or when you're just feeling generally sick. If you
  are a woman, the primary physician may have been a gynecologist. If your child has the cancer, the primary
  physician may have been a pediatrician. Or it may have been a specialist in family practice, still fondly
  remembered by some as a GP, or general practitioner.
• A laboratory technician may have drawn your blood for tests.
• The tissue for a biopsy may have been taken by your primary physician, by a general surgeon or possibly by a
  radiologist or medical oncologist doing a fine needle aspiration .
• Your tissue sample was then examined under the microscope by a pathologist , an expert in the analysis of
  tissue to identify disease.