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How Multidisciplinary Teams Work
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Dr. Jacques Fontaine
Cancer treatment is a complex process that requires the collaboration of various experts. Each specialist brings their unique knowledge to the table, ensuring comprehensive care for patients. In a shared clinic space, these professionals work together seamlessly to address the multifaceted nature of cancer.
Cancer is a complex disease to treat. And that's why it's so important to have different type of experts, different type of physicians who all focus on lung cancer or who all focus on mesothelioma or esophageal cancer, and they all come together to work in unison. So the radiation oncologist will give their input on that specific case.
The medical oncologist will chime in. The thoracic surgeon will provide his or her expertise. The pulmonologist, the pathologist who will review the slides, the radiologist, and they all have a focus on that one specific type of cancer.
They all work together as a singular team under one roof in the same clinic space.
