Pay attention to multidisciplinary team (MDT) for diagnosis and treatment of the malignant tumor in general surgery YE Ying-jiang, WANG Shan. Department of Gastroenterology Surgery, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing 100044, China. Corresponding author: WANG Shan, E-mail: shwang60@sina.com Abstract The continual and rapid expanding range of potential efficacious treatment options introduces therapeutic dilemmas about optimum management plans and how those should be presented to patients. Coordination, communication, and decision-making between healthcare team members and patients are aspects of cancer cares and can be improved by multidisciplinary team (MDT) working, which is named as MDT modality. MDT modality is different from traditional modality, which is patient-oriented and supported by multidisciplinary experts group and improves the communication and comprehension each other among disciplinarys. In China, there has been an increasing focus on MDT modality in the medical field in recent years. However, it is just in the primary stage. Promoting and applying MDT modality contributes to sharing of medical resources, decreasing the misdiagnosis and mistreatment, and improving the prognosis and the survival rate.