ArticleAnnals of medicine and surgery (2012)2023
The effect of multidisciplinary team on survival rates of women with breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Implementing consistent pretreatment multidisciplinary review for breast cancer: a quality improvement project.BMJ open quality · 2026Article
- Pediatric Thyroid Cancer Multidisciplinary Team Improves Adherence of Radioactive Iodine Treatment According to National Guidelines.Otolaryngology--head and neck surgery : official journal of American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery · 2025Article
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- Causative Genes of Homologous Recombination Deficiency (HRD)-Related Breast Cancer and Specific Strategies at Present.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2025Review
- Adjuvant systemic therapy in early breast cancer and results of a prospective observational multicenter BRIDE study: patients outcome and adherence to guidelines in cancer clinical practice.Frontiers in oncology · 2025Article
- Management ofEcancermedicalscience · 2024Review
- Towards Agility in Breast Cancer Treatment Principles as Adopted from Agile Software Engineering.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2024Article
- Implications of Agile Values in Software Engineering for Agility in Breast Cancer Treatment: Protocol for a Comparative Study.JMIR research protocols · 2023Article
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Abstract
Breast cancer is quite frequent all around the world. This disease was responsible for an estimated 2.1 million malignancies in 2022, making it the seventh-highest cause of cancer deaths globally. A multidisciplinary team (MDT) care policy was developed in the United Kingdom (UK) in 1995 to enhance the quality of care for cancer patients. The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis study is to assess the effects of MDT on breast cancer survival rates. Methods: This study was conducted in accordance with the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) 2020. Systematic search was conducted in several international databases including Google Scholar, PubMed, EBSCOhost, and Proquest from 2012 to 2022. The authors used RevMan 5.4 to do the meta-analysis of the pooled hazard ratio. Newcastle-Ottawa Scale to measure the risk of bias. Newcastle-Ottawa Scale evaluated participant selection, comparability, and reporting of results using eight subscale items. Egger's test funnel plot was used to assess the potential publication bias for this study. Results: A total of 1187 studies were identified from research database. The authors found a total of six studies from six different countries (China, the UK, Taiwan, Australia, Africa, and France) included for this study. Based on the meta-analysis of the pooled hazard ratio of the included studies, the authors found that the overall effect size of the study was 0.80 (CI 95%: 0.73-0.88). Conclusions: Breast cancer patients who participated in well-organized MDT discussions had a greater survival rate than those who did not.
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