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Integrating MDT Tumor Board Shadowing into the Undergraduate Medical Curriculum: Perspective of Medical Students
Site-specific multidisciplinary team (MDT) tumor boards are valuable resources for medical students, enabling them to familiarize themselves with the...
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Large language model (ChatGPT) as a support tool for breast tumor board
Large language models (LLM) such as ChatGPT have gained public and scientific attention. The aim of this study is to evaluate ChatGPT as a support...
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Addressing gaps in healthcare provider knowledge regarding germline testing for prostate cancer through development and testing of a virtual genetics board
BackgroundGermline testing is important in prostate cancer and evaluation can be complex.
MethodsWe instituted a monthly multi-disciplinary virtual...
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Analysis of Oncology and Radiation Therapy Representation on the National Board of Medical Examiners Official Practice Material for the United States National Standardized Medical Board Examinations
Radiation therapy (RT) is a critical component of multidisciplinary cancer care, but has inconsistent curricular exposure. We characterize the...
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Prognostic value of tumor-infiltrating CD163+macrophage in patients with metastatic gastric cancer undergoing multidisciplinary treatment
BackgroundThe multidisciplinary treatment including induction chemotherapy plus conversion surgery (CS) has attracted attention as a new strategy to...
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The Molecular Tumor Board of the Regina Elena National Cancer Institute: from accrual to treatment in real-world
BackgroundMolecular Tumor Boards (MTB) operating in real-world have generated limited consensus on good practices for accrual, actionable alteration...
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Higher number of multidisciplinary tumor board meetings per case leads to improved clinical outcome
BackgroundThis analysis aims at evaluating the impact of multidisciplinary tumor boards on clinical outcome of multiple tumor entities, the effect of...
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Bridging therapeutic opportunities: a survey by the Italian molecular tumor board workgroup of Alliance Against Cancer
BackgroundMolecular tumor boards (MTBs) match molecular alterations with targeted anticancer drugs upon failure of the available therapeutic options....
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The role of molecular tumor boards in neuro-oncology: a nationwide survey
BackgroundIn neuro-oncology, the inclusion of tumor patients in the molecular tumor board has only become increasingly widespread in recent years,...
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Using a multistep approach with multidisciplinary team to increase the diagnosis rate of Lynch syndrome-associated colorectal cancer after universal screening: a single-center study in Japan
Backgrounds: This study aimed to evaluate the changes in the rates of genetic counseling and genetic testing as well as the diagnosis rate of Lynch...
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Completeness and selection bias of a Belgian multidisciplinary, registration-based study on the EFFectiveness and quality of Endometrial Cancer Treatment (EFFECT)
BackgroundWith the aim of obtaining more uniformity and quality in the treatment of corpus uteri cancer in Belgium, the EFFECT project has...
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Role of multidisciplinary team meetings in implementation of chemohormonal therapy in metastatic prostate cancer in daily practice
BackgroundThe recommended treatment for a subset of patients with metastatic prostate cancer (mPC) changed from androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) to...
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Recurrent brain metastases: the role of resection of in a comprehensive multidisciplinary treatment setting
BackgroundTreatment decision for recurrent symptomatic brain metastases (BM) is challenging with scarce data regarding surgical resection. We...
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Normalization of tumor markers and a clear resection margin affect progression-free survival of patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer who have undergone conversion surgery
BackgroundWith the advent of intensive combination regimens, an increasing number of patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer (UPC) have regained...
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Phase II study of multidisciplinary therapy combined with pembrolizumab for patients with synchronous oligometastatic non-small cell lung cancer TRAP OLIGO study (WJOG11118L)
BackgroundSynchronous oligometastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is generally characterised by the limited number of metastases at the time...
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Integrating data from multidisciplinary Management of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma: a cohort study
BackgroundMalignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM) is a rare and aggressive malignancy that most commonly affects the pleural layers. MPM has a strong...
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Quality and efficacy of Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) quality assessment tools and discussion checklists: a systematic review
BackgroundMDT discussion is the gold standard for cancer care in the UK. With the incidence of cancer on the rise, demand for MDT discussion is...
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Translocator protein (18kDA) (TSPO) marks mesenchymal glioblastoma cell populations characterized by elevated numbers of tumor-associated macrophages
TSPO is a promising novel tracer target for positron-emission tomography (PET) imaging of brain tumors. However, due to the heterogeneity of cell...
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Next-generation universal hereditary cancer screening: implementation of an automated hereditary cancer screening program for patients with advanced cancer undergoing tumor sequencing in a large HMO
Variants in hereditary cancer risk genes are frequently identified following tumor-based DNA sequencing and represent an opportunity to diagnose...
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Clinical evaluation of molecular surrogate subtypes in patients with ipsilateral multifocal primary breast cancer
BackgroundWhen ipsilateral multifocal primary breast cancer (IMBC) is detected, standard routine is to evaluate the largest tumor with...
