Multidisciplinary interaction of Russian professional communities in oncology

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Background. The effective treatment of oncological diseases requires the proper organization of interdisciplinary communication between specialists. Such an approach should be implemented in educational events organized by professional communities.

Aim. To analyze the effectiveness of interaction between professional oncology communities and expert physicians on the platforms of educational events in Russia as a response to the unprecedented growth of scientific knowledge in oncology.

Materials and methods. We studied educational events programs organized by oncological communities. The keywords of the report titles in 2012 and 2021 and the features of the networking structure of the speakers at the educational events in 2021 were analyzed.

Results. In 2021, there was a significant expansion of the range of topics discussed compared to 2012, while experts began to use the terms "diagnosis", "prevention", "radiotherapy", and others much less frequently. The network structure of professional community interactions and interdisciplinary connections of experts at educational events is heterogeneous; some communities actively cooperate, while others show a closed position. At the level of systematic multidisciplinary expert interaction, there is also an underrepresentation of pathologists, geneticists, and other specialists.

Conclusion. The oncology professional community needs to regularly work on multidisciplinary consolidation of competencies and broad discussion of clinical experience at scientific and educational events.

About the authors

Igor Е. Khatkov

Moscow Cancer Society; Loginov Moscow Clinical Scientific Center; Yevdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry

Email: ihatkov@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4088-8118
SPIN-code: 5128-5820

D. Sci. (Med.), Prof., Acad. RAS

Russian Federation, Moscow; Moscow; Moscow

Irina I. Andreyashkina

Moscow Cancer Society; Loginov Moscow Clinical Scientific Center

Email: i.andreyashkina@mknc.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2646-499X

D. Sci. (Med.)

Russian Federation, Moscow; Moscow

Ekaterina E. Zelenova

People’s Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University); Blokhin National Medical Research Center of Oncology

Email: zelenovayeye@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2197-8863
SPIN-code: 6823-6353

geneticist

Russian Federation, Moscow; Moscow

Ivan D. Trotsenko

Moscow Cancer Society; People’s Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)

Author for correspondence.
Email: trotsenko-id@rudn.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6667-0125
SPIN-code: 5522-4303

Cand. Sci. (Med.)

Russian Federation, Moscow; Moscow

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2. Fig. 1. Terms that appeared 2 or more times in the report titles of oncology conference in 2012.

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3. Fig. 2. Terms that appeared 2 or more times in the report titles of oncology conference in 2021.

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4. Fig. 3. Terms that have shaped the 2021 reporting agenda compared to 2012.

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5. Fig. 4. Terms disappearing from the 2021 reports agenda compared to 2012.

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6. Fig. 5. Network analysis of the interaction structure of oncology professional communities (nodes are events held by professional communities; ribs are links of events through the speakers participating in these events; the color of the node is the association that organized the event; node size represents the number of reports in the event program).

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7. Fig. 6. Classification of events by their impact on information dissemination efficiency (the root

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8. Fig. 7. Networking structure for speakers interaction at conferences. Node color indicates the profession and the size indicates the speaker's degree.

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9. Fig. 8. Cities of residence of speakers regularly interacted with each other.

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