Prostate Cancer Nexus
Transcript: The benefits of the multidisciplinary team
Neal Shore, MD, FACS
Interview recorded October 2025. All transcripts are created from interview footage and directly reflect the content of the interview at the time. The content is that of the speaker and is not adjusted by Medthority.
- I think, you know, ESMO 2025, much like earlier congresses this year, ASCO 2025 and AUA and EAU 2025, one of the consistent themes in GU oncology, and I think this is largely consistent across oncology, is the importance of the multidisciplinary team. We use that word quite a bit, it's kind of the standard of care or paradigm within academic medical centres.
The communities that are really approaching that, regardless of where you are in the world, are getting opportunities of greater therapeutic maximal benefit to patients. There's suddenly, you know, an embarrassment of riches, so to speak, in biomarker development, imaging and therapeutics. And so not everybody is capable of understanding all of it. And some really do require the multidisciplinary team. Not every patient will necessarily benefit from game-changing level one evidence, but I think it's important if you have a good, strong, solid foundation of multidisciplinary discussion, that then patients and their family members, their caregivers can have a truly educated decision in this.
And it's not just the healthcare providers saying, "I'm limited to what I really know and think, so I'm only gonna talk about this. Or maybe I'm gonna tell you about everything, but I can only really do one thing."
Ideally, you can talk about everything with assistance from others, but I think it really, the bottom line is that hopefully our patients and their family members can really know about all of their options so they can make the best decision for them.
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