Abstract

Objectives: Head and neck cancers, have been the object, within the frame of multidisciplinary support, of some work and publications notably European and American ones. A prospective study of the multidisciplinary approach to these cancers, in our country (Algeria), seemed original and interesting to realize in order to determine the impact of the multidisciplinary on quality-care of patients and on professional practice. Material and methods: Our multidisciplinary structure ensured patients recruitment (predatasheet-based), organized and saw to it that multidisciplinary consultation meetings (MCM) were run properly, and made patients benefit from the quality of multidisciplinary care. Evaluation and discussion of the results will be of interest to, the functioning of multidisciplinary consultation meetings and their impact on professional practices on a one hand, and the quality of the multidisciplinary support of patients in its epidemiologically, diagnosis and therapy, on the other hand. Results: The patients took charge rate multidisciplinary mode of 52.80%. The cancers care period of our patients is proving quite efficient (12 to 21 days). Epidemiologically, our study provides accurate data especially concerning new cases of cancer and recurrence, locations and sub locations according to the International Classification of head and neck cancers. Diagnostically, the MCM improves the accuracy of diagnosis and rectifies potential errors. Therapeutically, the MCM is supposed to improve the treatment and survival of patients and the costs of various therapeutic. Conclusions: The mode of multidisciplinary care for cancer is necessary for qualitative care for patients, to improve professional practice, for training and for different studies.