Tumor board
A tumor board (also: the tumor conference ) offers an approach to treatment planning for malignant diseases , in which a number of doctors who are experts in various medical specialties review and discuss a patient's medical condition and treatment options. The specialty of the participants in a tumor board depends on the respective disease. Oncologists , surgeons from various disciplines ( surgery , dermatology, gynecology , senology , urology ), as well as radiologists , radiation therapists and pathologists are regularly represented . The result of the assessment and treatment planning is also known as an interdisciplinary opinion. The interdisciplinary definition of treatment strategies and subsequent feedback on the course of the disease have, in addition to the benefit for the patients, a further training effect for the doctors involved.
literature
- JR Siewert, F. Lordick: Standards in interdisciplinary diagnostics and therapy. In: Hans-Joachim Schmoll, Klaus Höffken, Kurt Possinger (eds.): Compendium of internal oncology standards in diagnostics and therapy. Springer Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3540206574 , p. 523 in the Google Book Search
- David P. Winchester: Tumor board case management. Lippincott-Raven, 1997, ISBN 0397513402