Overdiagnosis is defined as the diagnosis of an asymptomatic cancer that would not have become clinically evident during the person's lifetime in the absence of screening or similar activities, such as diagnostic imaging tests that reveal “incidentalomas.”
Community oncology needs to adapt to the era of precision oncology and Big Data, said Lee Schwartzberg, executive director of Memphis-based West Cancer Center, who was recently named chief medical officer of OneOncology, a partnership between three oncology practices located in Tennessee and New York.