Fig. 2: Flowchart of MTB meetings. | npj Precision Oncology

Fig. 2: Flowchart of MTB meetings.

From: Real-world experience of Molecular Tumour Boards for clinical decision-making for cancer patients

Fig. 2

MTB roles: Chair: A senior oncology professional with experience in molecular profiling, who moderates the meeting, ensuring that it runs effectively and coordinating the case discussion. Driver: A healthcare professional, generally a clinical fellow or a consultant, who navigates eTARGET during the meeting, looks for potential trials, and documents the MTB outcomes. Clinical Scientist: A healthcare professional in clinical genetics who reviews molecular profiling reports in advance of the meeting, determines the clinical significance of alterations and contributes to case discussions to identify actionable mutations. Case Presenter: A healthcare professional who prepares the clinical history of a patient and presents the case to the panel before the discussion. MTB Administrator: person in charge of setting the MTB agenda and sending meeting invites to participants. Also available if any technical issues.

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