[Pharmacists in community medicine: especially in cancer treatment]
1Department of Surgery, Shizuoka General Hospital, Aoi-ku, Shizuoka, Japan. masa-takagi@general-hosp.pref.shizuoka.jp
Abstract:
It is important for clinics and hospitals to cooperate in treating cancer patients in the community health. We are treating cancer patients in cooperation with five general hospitals in Shizuoka and about 100 clinics in the same community. In this system, it is required that pharmacists in the community should have knowledge about beneficial effects and adverse events of anticancer drugs as do hospital pharmacists, and furthermore they should have good communication with cancer patients. The expectation for pharmacists is great in community medicine especially in the treatment of cancer patients.
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