Group Head Department of Quality Assurance Dr. Ziauddin Hospital

When it comes to cancer care, looking at a patient's case from different viewpoints is an important part of deciding best treatment approach. That's where tumor boards come in and it's essential in field of oncology. These meetings provide a vast advantage to patients; a process patients don't usually know much about, but it holds a valuable stance.

At Dr. Ziauddin Hospital clinical/medical academia, patient care, treatment, management and providing quality service goes hand in hand for having best results in managing patients and boosting skills and knowledge of our doctors and nurses.

Highlighting same, our tumor board meeting plays an important role having specialized doctors and other health care providers who regularly meet to discuss cancer cases that are uncommon and/or challenging. Objective is to decide best possible treatment plan for a patient as a group. We have multidisciplinary tumor boards as well as specific tumor board meetings, like that of Head and Neck, where every new patient's case is studied and our cancer-specific oncologists, specialists make

sure that finest plans for each and every patient are reviewed. Plans are based on patients own specific and individual requirements. Hence, tumor board meeting at Dr. Ziauddin Hospital is a valuable platform for improving and providing successful clinical care, treatment and management of cancer patients.

Dr. Ziauddin Hospital, North Campus marked its hundredth tumor board meeting, at a session held on August 23, 2022. Renowned field specialists, especially from department of Oncology, Surgery, Obstetrics, Gynecology, Radiology, Head Neck, Histopathology, Urology, were acknowledged for providing quality care, treatment and management for cancer patients. Dr. Ammad Hussain Chief

Executive of Dr. Ziauddin Hospital shared his views saying 'A tumor board is principally a mindful attention'-a way for oncologists, experts and domain specialists to organize and review a case in its completeness. Talking on important aspects, Dr. Adnan. A. Jabbar Prof. Medical Oncologist, Chair Oncology at Dr. Ziauddin Hospital as Key Note speaker at session shared expert views, he said benefits of tumor boards include quality enhancement, programme development and boosting professional career-remarkable value added by tumor boards is not only to patient care, but also to health care professionals and hospital at large, also marveling in research, innovations.

Published in The Daily National Courier, August, 24 2022

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