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In 1989, Dr. Alan Hollingsworth became the first board-certified physician
(of any specialty) in the state of Oklahoma to limit his practice to breast cancer, and in
1992 he became the Founding Medical Director of Oklahoma’s first Multidisciplinary Breast
Center.
“The Multi-specialty Roundtable was a big surprise for all of us,” he reports.
“The pathologists were surprised to learn what the radiologists had been chasing with their
needles, the radiologists were caught off guard by the information that never made it on the
written pathology report, the surgeons were not aware of what the radiation oncologists could
do, the radiation oncologists had no idea how they impacted plastic surgical reconstructions,
and on and on. And by adding regular reviews of the medical literature – (a ‘mere’ 500 articles
are published each MONTH on breast cancer) – the seven specialties fused…and patients benefited
through a model of excellence.”
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November 10, 1992 – Noted breast pathologist David L. Page, M.D. from Vanderbilt begins the “wallbreaking” ceremony for
Oklahoma’s first multidisciplinary breast cancer center, while Founding Medical Director Alan B. Hollingsworth, M.D. prepares
for the second swing.
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