Breast Cancer Multi‐Disciplinary Team Meetings in a Resource‐Constrained System: Are Patients Receiving the Treatment Recommended?
Nerushka Naidoo, Lindi Martin, Wilhelmina Conradie, Magda Heunis, Charl Petrus Smit, Jenny Edge · 2026
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Nerushka Naidoo and co-authors ask, in a 2026 study, whether breast cancer patients in a strained health system get the treatment their care team recommends. Team meetings weigh each case and set a plan. In low- and middle-income settings, patients often arrive with later-stage disease.
The team reviewed records of all adults newly diagnosed and discussed at the meeting from July 2021 onward. They compared the treatment advised with the treatment each patient actually received. They also checked how that match varied by disease stage. A gap between advice and delivery points to system barriers, not medical doubt. Naming the gap is the first step toward closing it for future patients.
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| CREATOR | Nerushka Naidoo, Lindi Martin, Wilhelmina Conradie, Magda Heunis, Charl Petrus Smit, Jenny Edge |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 23 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |