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Multidisciplinary Treatment Approach

To help make the multidisciplinary treatment approach more accessible, we support the efforts highlighted below.

  • Provide educational materials that help patients and their families, as well as healthcare providers including physicians, to understand the benefits of a multidisciplinary oncology team and how individual professionals contribute to the team.
  • Urge patients and their caregivers to seek a multidisciplinary healthcare team from the outset, and to advocate for a full treatment plan to be developed early in the process.
  • Promote further research of a multidisciplinary team approach of care for patients with colorectal cancer.
  • Ensure that the greatest number of colorectal cancer patients benefit from a treatment plan developed by a multidisciplinary healthcare team.
  • Increase physician awareness of a multidisciplinary treatment approach, including research broadening the criteria for patients with liver metastases to be considered for liver resection and referred to professionals specializing in that procedure.
  • Reevaluate the criteria for patients with liver metastases to be considered for liver resection and referred to professionals specializing in this procedure.

This approach is supported by: Association of Oncology Social Work, Center for Colon Cancer Research-University of Southern California (USC), Colon Cancer Alliance, Colon Cancer Prevention Project, The Colon Club, Colorectal Cancer Coalition (C3), Gilda's Club Worldwide, and the Prevent Cancer Foundation.

 

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