Multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) are an alliance of all medical and health care professionals related to a specific tumour disease whose approach to cancer care is guided by their willingness to agree on evidence-based clinical decisions and to co-ordinate the delivery of care at all stages of the process, encouraging patients in turn to take an active role in their care’ . It is unrealistic today, and even more so in the future, that one profession can oversee the whole complexity of oncology. The whole cancer community strives to improve cancer care. Research relies on networks of knowledge and expertise. Every discipline needs the mutual support and findings of the others in order to advance patient care. Overall, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The close collaboration, and not the preeminent position of one physician over another, is the ideal setting for optimal cancer care. The positioning of a discipline, especially in a multidisciplinary environment such as contemporary oncology, cannot be self-referential, since preserving a cancer patient’s quality of life in all phases of disease and after successful treatment also includes continuously assessing the patient’s physical and psychological symptoms and making sure that these problems are fully recognised and adequately addressed. Where appropriate, this is done in collaboration with experts of other medical and non-medical disciplines.

Still a long way to go to achieve multidisciplinarity for the benefit of patients: commentary on the ESMO position paper (Annals of Oncology 25(1): 9-15, 2014)

GRASSI, Luigi;
2014

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Multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) are an alliance of all medical and health care professionals related to a specific tumour disease whose approach to cancer care is guided by their willingness to agree on evidence-based clinical decisions and to co-ordinate the delivery of care at all stages of the process, encouraging patients in turn to take an active role in their care’ . It is unrealistic today, and even more so in the future, that one profession can oversee the whole complexity of oncology. The whole cancer community strives to improve cancer care. Research relies on networks of knowledge and expertise. Every discipline needs the mutual support and findings of the others in order to advance patient care. Overall, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The close collaboration, and not the preeminent position of one physician over another, is the ideal setting for optimal cancer care. The positioning of a discipline, especially in a multidisciplinary environment such as contemporary oncology, cannot be self-referential, since preserving a cancer patient’s quality of life in all phases of disease and after successful treatment also includes continuously assessing the patient’s physical and psychological symptoms and making sure that these problems are fully recognised and adequately addressed. Where appropriate, this is done in collaboration with experts of other medical and non-medical disciplines.
2014
Valentini, V.; Abrahamsson, P. A.; Aranda, S. K.; Astier, A.; Audisio, R. A.; Boniol, M.; Bonomo, L.; Brunelli, A.; Bultz, B.; Chiti, A.; DE LORENZO, F.; Eriksen, J. G.; Goh, V.; Gospodarowicz, M. K.; Grassi, Luigi; Kelly, J.; Kortmann, R. D.; Kutluk, T.; Plate, A.; Poston, G.; Saarto, T.; Soffietti, R.; Torresin, A.; VAN HARTEN, W. H.; Verzijlbergen, J. F.; VON KALLE, C.; Poortmans, P.
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