An History (1998-1999) and actors of MDMs
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324 patients evaluables of the 329 patients that partecipated in the
MDM
for HeN cancers
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The primary tumour could be TNM-classified and staged in 220 (68%)
patients
, of whom the majority had a cancer stage III or IV (n/127)
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Staging was not performed in the remaining 104 (32%) patients
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All participating specialists were registered during, the MDM meetings.
Most meetings were attended by 3 ENT surgeons, 2 oncologists, 1
pathologist, 1 dental surgeon and 1 radiologist; one-third of the
meetings were also attended by a general surgeon and in one-fifth of
the meetings a thoracic surgeon was present
And the radiation oncologist? And the nurse?