title: Oncology treatment improvement--our experience in Serbia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine weather structural changes by a tumor board made any difference in quality of treatment for oncology patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  Current management of our hospital initiated structural changes in the tumor board in January 2010 and improvement was measured through comparing the clinical staging of cervical cancer to previous tumor board results.
  
  
  RESULTS
  365 patients were seen by a multidisciplinary tumor board from January to December of 2010. There were 146 cases of cervical cancer. 87 were staged as Ib-IIa for radical surgery, 59 patients were staged as advanced stage of disease and RT was proposed as well as combined radio-chemotherapy in some cases.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Structural changes in the tumor board have made a significant improvement in the oncology care of our patients, primarily because of a multidisciplinary approach to gynecological malignancies and additional imaging performed in all cases of cervical cancer for better insight in the spread of the disease.
authors.affiliation: Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics, Clinical Centre of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia. tab145712@yahoo.com
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Bozanović
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Zizić
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Apostolović
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vidaković
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Aksam
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bosković
authors.forename: Dj
authors.initials: Dj
authors.lastname: Bajec
authors.forename: B K
authors.initials: BK
authors.lastname: Kotlica
mesh_terms: D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D005833:Genital Neoplasms, Female / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D055771:Serbia