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Support for 'masters of uncertainty'.

Australian Doctor,  November, 2006  

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By Rebecca Jenkins

INCREASED support for GPs to detect gynaecological cancer underpins a host of recommendations to improve management of the condition in Australia.

A Senate inquiry has made the call after hearing that GPs play a pivotal role in gynaecological cancer, but had to be "masters of uncertainty", because the cancers had ill-defined symptoms and most doctors rarely saw a case.

GPs were trained to look at the most likely cause of a patient's symptoms before investigating the least common cause, which could be gynaecological cancer.

The committee's ...

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