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Still a long way to go to achieve multidisciplinarity for the benefit of patients: commentary on the ESMO position paper

Saturday, July 12, 2014

Submitted by

Mark Ferguson

Source

Source Name: Annals of Oncology

Source URL: http://annonc.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/recent#content-block

Author(s)

V. Valentini, P-A. Abrahamsson, S.K. Aranda, A. Astier, R. A. Audisio, M. Boniol, L. Bonomo, A. Brunelli, B. Bultz, A. Chiti, F. De Lorenzo, J.G. Eriksen, V. Goh, M. K. Gospodarowicz, L. Grassi, J. Kelly, R. D. Kortmann, T. Kutluk, A. Plate, G. Poston, T. Saarto, R. Soffietti, A. Torresin, W. H. van Harten, J.F. Verzijlbergen, C. von Kalle, and P. Poortmans

This editorial, authored by a number of presidents/leaders of prominent medical societies, laments a recent position paper of the ESMO espousing medical oncologists as the natural team leaders of multidisciplinary oncologic care. It cautions other cancer specialists not to abandon their roles as advocates for their cancer patients.