Multidisciplinary team (MDT) for treatment of colon cancer        WANG Xi-shan. Department of Colorectal Surgery, the Third Affiliated Hospital, Harbin Medical University, Harbin 150040, China
Abstract    Despite the fact that surgery is still the mainstay of treatment for patients with colon cancer, surgery alone hasn’t improved the treatment effectiveness. The current management of colon cancer has come to involve a combination of multidisciplinary treatment modalities, viz. multidisciplinary team (MDT) modality.  MDT modality could offer the optimal treatment option and the internal communication. The goal and responsibility of colorectal surgeons treating colon cancer patients is to understand and coordinate the wide variety of modalities available to optimize treatment effectiveness and reduce patients’ cost.