The multidisciplinary team meeting at the The Nairobi Hospital started in the year 2015. It is a formal weekly meeting that discusses diagnosis and management of cancer patients both within the institution and without. It is a general tumor board attended by attended by medical oncologists, surgeons, radiation therapists, pathologists, radiologists, and other specialists. Patient cases are discussed and the most appropriate management plan for the patient is made.
We assessed the use and efficiency of MTBs at the Nairobi Hospital. We looked at the process of case presentations, plans for therapy, changes in diagnoses and treatment plans for various types of cancer. This will eventually help in better patient management. The results from this study would inform and/or identify current gaps in the MTB meetings. It will allow us to put into place measures that enhances the implementation of multidisciplinary management of patients with cancer at the Nairobi Hospital and other cancer institutions.

Tumor board is essential to optimize the management of cancer patients. It plays an important role in both diagnosis and treatment. Cancer surgery has technical imperatives that achieve the desired results in terms of local control and survival but also in terms of patient comfort. In Senegal the tumor board is not held in all institutions that take care of cancers. At Joliot Curie Cancer Institute in Dakar where we can find surgical oncologists, medical oncologists and radiation therapists, Tumor board has been organized every week for more than 10 years. The institute trains surgical oncologists and it is from surgery that most of the patients presented to the tumor board are recruited. The surgeon occupies a central place. It evaluates the resecability of tumors, the operability of patients and the choice of the opportunity for surgery. This choice is confronted with the benefits and risks, optimal time and delays of the surgical procedure, with neo-adjuvant and adjuvant treatments and also with the curative or palliative objective.