Editorial: The multidisciplinary team process: The next steps - 26 Downloads
Editorial: The multidisciplinary team process: The next steps
D. Rew
The multidisciplinary team (MDT) now has a central role in decision making in the management of all cancers in most advanced health systems. The logic of multidisciplinary teamworking in cancer care is persuasive, although the evidence base for a treatment benefit is as yet weak. However, the evolution of the MDT as a clinical management tool is incomplete. At its best, the MDT process allows for substantial improvement in the management of cancers. A little more than a decade ago, the treatment of individual cancers was something of a lottery, in which the choice of adjuvant modalities was often governed by the attitudes and beliefs of individual clinicians, and often determined by surgeons alone.
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