Still a long way to go to achieve multidisciplinarity for the benefit of patients: commentary on the ESMO position paper (Annals of Oncology 25(1): 9-15, 2014)
Ann Oncol. 2014 Sep;25(9):1863-1865.
doi: 10.1093/annonc/mdu245.
Epub 2014 Jul 10.
1 Department of Radiation Oncology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy; European SocieTy for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO), Brussels, Belgium.
2 Department of Urology, Skåne University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden; European Association of Urology (EAU), Arnhem, The Netherlands.
3 School of Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), Geneva, Switzerland.
4 Department of Pharmacy, Henri Mondor University Hospitals, Créteil, France; European Society of Oncology Pharmacy (ESOP), Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
5 Department of Surgery, University of Liverpool, St Helens Teaching Hospital, St Helens, UK; European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO), Brussels, Belgium.
6 University of Strathclyde Institute of Global Public Health at iPRI, International Prevention Research Institute, Lyon, France; Euroskin, Hamburg, Germany.
7 Department of Radiological Sciences, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy; European Society of Radiology (ESR), Vienna, Austria.
8 Department of Thoracic Surgery, St James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK; European Society of Thoracic Surgeons (ESTS), Exeter, UK.
9 Division of Psychosocial Oncology, Department of Oncology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada; International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS), Charlottesville, USA.
10 Department of Nuclear Medicine, Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Milan, Italy; European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM), Vienna, Austria.
11 European Cancer Patient Coalition (ECPC), Brussels, Belgium.
12 Department of Oncology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark; European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS), UEMS Section of Radiation Oncology and Radiotherapy, Brussels, Belgium.
13 Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK; European Society of Oncologic Imaging (ESOI), Vienna, Austria.
14 Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), Geneva, Switzerland; University of Toronto, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Toronto, Canada.
15 Institute of Clinical Psychiatry, Department of Biomedical and Specialty Surgical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy; IPOS Federation of Psycho-Oncology Societies, Charlottesville, USA.
16 Association of European Cancer Leagues (ECL), Brussels, Belgium.
17 Department of Radiation Therapy, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany; Paediatric Radiation Oncology Society (PROS), Lyon, France.
18 Union for International Cancer Control (UICC), Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Pediatric Oncology, Hacettepe University Cancer Institute, Ankara, Turkey.
19 Myeloma Patients Europe, Brussels, Belgium.
20 European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO), Brussels, Belgium; Department of Surgery, University of Liverpool, Aintree University Hospital, Liverpool, UK.
21 Cancer Center, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland; European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC), Milan, Italy.
22 Department Neuro-Oncology, University, Turin, Italy; European Association of Neuro-Oncology (EANO), Brussels, Belgium.
23 Department of Medical Physics, Niguarda Ca' Granda Hospital, Milan, Italy; European Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics (EFOMP), York, UK.
24 Executive Board Member Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Organization of European Cancer Institutes (OECI), Brussels, Belgium.
25 European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM), Vienna, Austria; Department of Nuclear Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
26 National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg and German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Germany; European Association for Cancer Research (EACR), Nottingham, UK.
27 European SocieTy for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO), Brussels, Belgium; Department of Radiation Oncology, Dr B. Verbeeten Institute, Tilburg, The Netherlands. Electronic address: poortmans.ph@bvi.nl.