Multidisciplinary team for rectal cancer GU Jin. Department of No.2 Gastrointestinal Surgery,Peking University School of Oncology, Beijing 100036, China Abstract Rectal cancer is one of the most common cancers in China.Despite the fact that surgery is still the mainstay of treatment for patients with rectal cancer, the management of the disease should be performed by a multidisciplinary team (MDT) with contributions by surgeons, oncologists, pathologists, radiologists and gastroenterologists. The working modality of MDT in the treatment of rectal cancer was widely adopted in the world. MDT modality could play the key role in improving treatment outcomes and reducing patients’cost.