A couple of weeks ago Drew blogged on a short essay/case report in Journal of Clinical Oncology that addressed a physician’s struggle in prescribing chemotherapy that he considered to be futile. The same day I got my latest issue of Oncology with an article (with 2 invited responses, here and here) on patient demands for chemotherapy that clinicians feel is futile. I believe this is the inaugural offering in the new feature, “Areas of confusion in oncology.” The Oncology article is a fairly wid