Multidisciplinary Care (MDC)

“Multidisciplinary care is a collaborative approach to treatment planning and ongoing care throughout the treatment pathway. Multidisciplinary care aims to ensure that members of the treatment and care team can discuss all relevant aspects of a cancer patient's physical and psychosocial needs along with other factors impacting upon the patient's care”

Local initiatives related to MDC/ GICS

• Multidisciplinary meetings have been established for the following tumour streams:
        - Head and Neck
        - Thoracic (Public and Private)
        - Neuro-oncology
        - Breast
        - Colorectal
        - Upper GI
  
• GICS are in the process of facilitating regional participation in Metropolitan-based meetings including:
               - Gynaecology MDM in collaboration with SMICS
               - Lymphoma MDM in collaboration with NEMICS