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Australian Doctor, November, 2006
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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