Multidisciplinary teams in the treatment of prostate cancer.
Authors: Miguel Ángel Climent y José Rubio-Briones.
Arch. Esp. Urol. 2018; 71 (3): 315-322
Vol. 71, Number. 3, April 2018
In the last decade, prostate cancer
management has dramatically evolved to such a
complexity that different medical specialties have to
participate for its optimization, even making necessary
in many cases super specialization in every discipline
for such aim.
All Guidelines and every Scientific Association do
recommend multidisciplinary teams for its management
as a rule, but translation from multidisciplinary committees
to daily assistance is heterogeneous and faces, many
times, particular interests and conflicts between different
specialties implying that objective information of all the
therapeutic options does not reach the patient to enroll
him in his own therapeutic pathway.This is an opinion paper reviewing the advantages of
the multidisciplinary team daily work as a prolongation
of the multidisciplinary committee decisions, relying
in the literature to set the legal framework and
recommendations to generate an operative and real
model of multidisciplinary teamwork for the benefit of
both patient and all professionals involved in prostate
cancer management.
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