San Roque constitutes the first Tumor Advisory Committee of the Canarian private health - La Provincia
San Roque Hospitals has created the first Multidisciplinary Consultative Committee for Tumors in the Canary Islands private health sector, an organ with the objective of bringing together the different specialists involved in the diagnosis and treatment of different neoplasms, reported from the Grancanaria clinic.
The creation of this type of committees is necessary to achieve maximum efficacy, safety and quality in the treatment of this type of diseases since the oncology is continuously progressing and only the cohesion of the knowledge of all professionals will bring the best and most updated of the final results, expanded by press release from San Roque. This clinical committee of San Roque Hospitals is composed of medical specialists in surgery, radiology, pathology, nuclear medicine, medical oncology, radiotherapy oncology, gynecology, palliative medicine, that is, all those professionals involved in the management of this pathology.
From San Roque decided to start with the mammary pathology because of its important prevalence in our environment, in addition to the experience and scientific and social recognition, detailed the same business sources before predicting the medium term constitution of other committees that encompass other types of cancer, as digestive pathologies, since the island clinic is also presented as a reference center in this area.
The committee meets every week, as the number of patients analyzed before and / or after the surgery advises this periodicity to shorten the response times to their problems. Although combining medical agendas leads to complications for the celebration of meetings, the functioning of the committee is simple: the professional responsible for the patient proposes the case or cases for a joint debate with the entire multidisciplinary team through all the clinical and radiological information available so that the decision of the treatment or actions to follow, which finally falls on the first doctor but usually agrees with his colleagues, suppose the most appropriate according to the recommendations of the advisory body, concluded from San Roque Hospitals.
