Multidisciplinary team (MDT) for hepatobiliary cancers
A team of specialists meet to talk about the best treatment for you. They are called a multidisciplinary team (MDT).
If you have a hepatobiliary cancer, you are usually treated by a specialist hepatobiliary cancer MDT. Hepatobiliary cancers include:
The MDT reviews national treatment guidelines or the latest evidence for the type of cancer you have. If you have any treatment preferences, your doctor will tell them about this.
The MDT will usually include the following professionals:
- Hepatologist – a doctor who treats liver problems.
- Surgeon who specialises in operating on liver cancers.
- Clinical oncologist – a doctor who uses radiotherapy, chemotherapy and other anti-cancer drugs to treat people with cancer.
- Interventional radiologist – a doctor who uses scans and x-rays to give treatments such as tumour ablation, embolisation.
- Clinical nurse specialist – a nurse who gives information about cancer, and support during treatment.
- Radiologists – doctors who look at scans and x-rays to diagnose problems .
- Pathologists – doctors who look at cells or body tissue under a microscope to diagnose cancer.
It may also include:
- a palliative care doctor or nurse – someone who helps with symptom control
- a dietitian
- a physiotherapist
- an occupational therapist (OT)
- a psychologist or a counsellor.
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