He feels so strongly about this that no one is admitted to his Cancer Help Program unless they are under an oncologist's care. But this doesn't mean that American oncology is the only conventional way to go. The nation's leading physicians insist that Americans enjoy the best health care in the world. The best care that American oncologists have to offer may not be viewed as best by their colleagues in other countries. Yet they all treat cancer differently.
French physicians are deeply concerned with the aesthetics of the body.
They're wary of disfiguring surgery, and pioneered less drastic surgical procedures, for example, lumpectomy for breast cancer. Germans M.D.s are very open to herbal medicine. Many German physicians send their cancer patients to hospitals that combine conventional care with herbal medicine. The British take a'stiff upper lip' view of oncology. They spend only about half of what we do per capita on health care, and for cancer, they emphasize comfort over cure.