David Rew Consultant General Surgeon

Collective wisdom and decision making in surgical oncology

N. Robson, D. Rew

Introduction
There are many areas of uncertainty in clinical and oncological practice. The breadth and extent of the published literature in any one subject area is now huge, and accruing at an enormous rate. The ‘‘cloud’’ experience of huge numbers of individual clinicians treating individual patients with their infinite variety of presentations and responses to treatment across the world often goes uncaptured and unrecorded. There is no prospect of any one person collating, analysing and distilling this mass of published and unpublished knowledge in a realistic time frame, even with the help of modern search engines.

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