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What Makes a Good Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) in Colorectal Cancer?

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Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in the UK with approximately 40,000 new cases registered each year. The majority of patients undergo radical surgery as a curative procedure, which can result in permanent alteration in body image if a stoma is required. The associated symptoms of the disease and the implications of treatments, such as surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, can adversely affect patients’ quality of life (QOL) [1]. Variations in practice and the different uptake of these different modalities in rectal cancer are common, but the reasons to account for this are poorly understood.

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Glynne-Jones, R. et al. (2018). What Makes a Good Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) in Colorectal Cancer?. In: Valentini, V., Schmoll, HJ., van de Velde, C. (eds) Multidisciplinary Management of Rectal Cancer. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43217-5_69

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