Modern treatment of gastrointestinal (GI) malignancies requires more of a multidisciplinary approach than in previous years, according to Toufic Kachaamy, MD. More often in GI cancer care, gastroenterologists and interventional gastroenterologists are involved with the initial diagnoses and staging.
“Traditionally, cancer care used to be mostly the oncologist, whether surgical oncologist, medical oncologist, radiation oncologist, but there’s a lot of other disciplines that not only have to add to the cancer care like gastroenterology, but also make cancer care better,” Kachaamy, Enterprise program leader, Interventional Programs and Medical Director of Gastroenterology at Cancer Treatment Centers of America Phoenix., told Targeted OncologyTM.