title: [The role of a family doctor in oncological care of the population].
abstract: The actual tasks faced by the family physician in the field of oncology can be considered in eight lines of activities according to successive stages of management of patients, that include identification and monitoring of risk factors; screening of early forms of cancer; diagnosis that must be based on results of the screening during the regular health checkups of patients and their applying for medical advice; primary finding out the extent of the process (staging); rendering the patient and his/her family phychological support; the family physician's work together with that of the oncologist; keeping the patient and his/her family under medical surveillance; terminal stages management.
authors.forename: I V
authors.initials: IV
authors.lastname: Koval'chuk
authors.forename: Ia V
authors.initials: IaV
authors.lastname: Shparyk
mesh_terms: D005194:Family Practice / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010819:Physician's Role; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010821:Physicians, Family; D018570:Risk Assessment