Cancer care: Scrap formal MDT meetings for routine patients, says major review

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   Cancer care: Scrap formal MDT meetings for routine patients, says major review

   Formal multidisciplinary team meetings to plan NHS cancer care should not be automatic for every patient, a specialist review has concluded.1Instead, multidisciplinary expertise should be “focused where it adds greatest value,” including people with rare and less common cancers, experts advise.The…

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   BMJ UK indie study

   Re: Cancer care: Scrap formal MDT meetings for routine patients, says major review

   Agreement: I Agree Body: Dear Editor At the time when the Calman-Hine report was published, I was developing a medical oncology service. A very dramatic effect of the MDT meetings was to challenge the nihilistic approach to cancer management. It was a surprise for some clinicians to hear me say…

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