Colon Cancer Alliance

What is Colorectal Cancer and How Can It Be Prevented?

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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