Great Plains Health held 20 multidisciplinary Cancer Conferences in 2018 with the goal of providing consultative services to formulate an effective treatment plan and offer education to physicians and allied health professionals. With many specialties in attendance, there were 134 physician representatives, from specialties such as hematology, palliative care, pathology, podiatry, radiology, general surgery, oral surgery, and radiation and medical oncology, along with a total of 348 other allied healthcare providers. 2018 CANCER CONFERENCES Cases were presented by medical oncologists Demytra Mitsis, MD; Avinash Pasam, MD; and Irfan Vaziri, MD; by radiation oncologist Todd Hlavaty, MD; and by surgeon Jacob Wiesen, MD. Pathologists assisting in case presentations were Yomi Asojo, MD; and Byron
Barksdale, MD. Radiologists who presented imaging for cases were Clark Diffendaffer, MD; David Hatch, MD, Rick Kukulka, MD; Ladd Lake, MD; and Imanual Somers-Dehaney, MD. The primary sites covered were anus (1), bladder (2), bone (1), bone marrow (2), breast (18), cecum (1), cervix (2), colon (6), endometrium (1), epiglottis (1), esophagus (2), kidney (4), liver (1), lung (17), lymph nodes (4), ovary (4), pancreas (1), parotid (2), piriform sinus (2), prostate (2), rectum (5), skin (3), supraglottis (2), thyroid (1), tonsil (3), unknown primary (3), and uveal (1). There were a total of 83 patient cases presented for discussion and recommendations on cancer staging, treatments, national guidelines, clinical trials, trends and recurrences.
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