The Multidisciplinary Approach to GI Cancer Results in Change of Diagnosis and Management of Patients. Multidisciplinary Care Impacts Diagnosis and Management of Patients

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• 作者：Cheryl Meguid DNP ; ACNP ; Richard D. Schulick MD ; MBA ; FACS…
• 刊名：Annals of Surgical Oncology
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：November 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：23
• 期：12
• 页码：3986-3990
• 全文大小：382 KB
• 刊物主题：Surgical Oncology; Oncology; Surgery;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1534-4681
• 卷排序：23

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BackgroundThe multidisciplinary approach to GI cancer is becoming more widespread as a result of multimodality therapy. At the University of Colorado Hospital (UCH), we utilize a formal multidisciplinary approach through specialized clinics across a variety of settings, including pancreas and biliary cancer, esophageal and gastric cancer, liver cancer and neuroendocrine tumors (NET), and colorectal cancer. Patients with these suspected diagnoses are seen in a multidisciplinary clinic. We evaluated whether implementation of disease-specific multidisciplinary programs resulted in a change in diagnosis and/or change in management for these patients.