# Tumour board (multidisciplinary team meeting)

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## TL;DR

A tumour board is a meeting where doctors from different specialties review one patient's cancer together and agree a treatment plan.

## Summary

Tumour board review is a treatment-planning approach in which experts from several medical specialties (surgery, medical and radiation oncology, pathology, radiology) meet to discuss complex cancer cases and their treatment options, as the Wikipedia article describes. Molecular tumour boards add genomics specialists to match sequencing results to targeted drugs and trials; a model that ranks treatments would have to fit into this room.

## Fields

- Kind: Term
- Last checked: 2026-09-24
- Also known as: tumour board; tumor board; tumour boards; tumor boards; multidisciplinary tumour board; MDT meeting; molecular tumour board
- Tags: cansim-terms

## Notes

- Listed in the CanSim terms map 1.0.0 (docs/onco/terms.json, generated 2026-09-24), CC BY 4.0, attribution: CanSim project, an open, public-data-first cancer foundation-model programme; CanSim page path /terms/tumour-board.

## Sources

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumor_board_review
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumor_board_review

## Connected records

- terms: [Cancer AI vocabulary (CanSim terms map)](https://onco.cc/terms/cancer-ai-vocabulary/), [Informed consent](https://onco.cc/terms/informed-consent/), [TNM staging](https://onco.cc/terms/tnm-staging/)

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