BACKGROUND Cancer care has become complex, requiring healthcare professionals to collaborate to provide high-quality care. Multidisciplinary oncological team (MDT) meetings in the hospital have been implemented to coordinate individual cancer patients' care. General practitioners (GPs) are invited to join, but their participation is minimal. OBJECTIVES Aim of this study is to explore particip...

PURPOSE United Kingdom prostate cancer nursing care is provided by a variety of urology and uro-oncology nurses. The experience of working in multidisciplinary teams (MDT) was investigated in a national study. DESIGN The study consisted of a national survey with descriptive statistics and thematic analysis. METHODS A secondary analysis of a data subset from a UK whole population survey was ...

The accurate diagnosis and management of individuals with interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) poses an interesting challenge in clinical practice. A multidisciplinary team (MDT) approach is considered the gold standard. This is a single-centre retrospective review spanning a five-year period. We assessed the accuracy of prior ILD diagnosis, the methodology used to establish a correct diagnosis an...

To the Editor: The use of maggots to clean necrotic wounds, known as maggot debridement therapy (MDT), has long been known to the scientific world. Its use has been recorded since the 1500s when soldiers’ wounds were often infested with maggots. Napoleon’s surgeon, Baron Dominic Larrey, reported that wounds that were infested with maggots appeared to heal faster than those without maggots.1 Wil...

PURPOSE Photothermal therapy is an emerging cancer treatment paradigm which involves highly localized heating and killing of tumor cells, due to the presence of nanomaterials that can strongly absorb near-infrared (NIR) light. In addition to having deep penetration depths in tissue, NIR light is innocuous to normal cells. Little is known currently about the fate of nanomaterials post phototherm...

BACKGROUND Prophylactic mastectomy (PM) has become increasingly common but is not without complications especially if accompanied by reconstructive surgery. In patients with sporadic unilateral breast cancer, contralateral PM offers no survival advantage. Multidisciplinary team (MDT) communication and interaction may facilitate shared decision-making and curtail PM rates. The aim of this study ...

Objective: To assess the frequency and type of adverse drug reactions (ADR) that necessitated modification of multi-drug therapy (MDT) in Hansen’s disease, with emphasis to find out the interval between initiation of MDT and the occurrence of ADR. Design: A retrospective analysis of case records of patients diagnosed with Hansen’s disease (HD) and registered for MDT in a tertiary care instituti...

The mediodorsal thalamic nucleus (MDT) is a higher order thalamic nucleus and its role in cognition is increasingly well established. Interestingly, components of the MDT also have a somewhat unique sensory function as they link primary olfactory cortex to orbitofrontal associative cortex. In fact, anatomical evidence firmly demonstrates that the MDT receives direct input from primary olfactory...

BACKGROUND A Prostate Cancer Unit is a place where men can be cared for by specialists in prostate cancer (PC), working together within a multi-disciplinary team (MDT). The MDT approach guarantees a higher probability for the PC patient to receive adequate information on the disease and on all possible therapeutic strategies, balancing advantages and related side effects. Objecive: To analyze t...

Treatment for multibacillary leprosy is presently performed with a multidrug therapy (MDT) scheme maintained for 2 years. Leprosy treatment however can benefit from the reduction of length. The lack of interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma) production by lepromatous leprosy (LL) patients' lymphocytes lead us to use this cytokine in the treatment of multibacillary leprosy associated with MDT in the treatm...