In a move that threatens to further inflame concerns about the rationing of medical care, the nation’s leading association of cancer physicians issued a list of five common tests and treatments that doctors should stop offering to cancer patients. Lowell Schnipper, the Theodore W. and Evelyn G. Berenson Professor of Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, led the task force assembled by the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).
