When you’re facing a cancer diagnosis, the decisions made about your treatment matter enormously. At Whole Health Oncology, those decisions are never made in isolation. Every cancer case is brought to our weekly Tumor Board Conference, where a full team of specialists, including Gynecologic Oncologists, Medical Oncologists, Radiation Oncologists, Pathologists, Radiologists, and Oncology nurse navigators, reviews your situation together before a final treatment plan is put in place. It’s one of the most meaningful things we do for our patients, and it’s something not every practice offers.
Multidisciplinary cancer care means that a diverse group of specialists, each with their own area of expertise, reviews your imaging, pathology, and surgical findings together and weighs in on what the evidence says your care should look like. The result is a treatment plan that has been tailored and personalized by some of the most experienced minds in oncology.
At Whole Health Oncology, Dr. Shazia Bashir leads your care as your Gynecologic Oncologist, but she works alongside a team that brings depth and breadth to every decision. Her commitment to comprehensive cancer care means you benefit from both a deeply personal relationship with your provider and the collective expertise of an entire oncology team working on your behalf.
We’d love to tell you more about how we approach your care. Request an appointment today.
Our cancer tumor board meets weekly at UF St. Johns Flagler Hospital and brings together specialists from across the oncology spectrum to review every new cancer case. Here's what that process looks like and why it matters for your care:
The oncology care team that participates in our tumor board brings together specialists from across the oncology spectrum, each with their own distinct area of expertise. Our tumor board includes:
Having all of these viewpoints in one room at the same time, focused on your case, is what makes multidisciplinary cancer care so powerful.
For every cancer case, the tumor board reviews pre-operative imaging, surgical findings, and pathology results. The team then discusses your case in the context of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network(opens in a new tab) guidelines, which are the gold standard for evidence-based cancer treatment planning in oncology. The goal is to determine whether adjuvant therapy (such as chemotherapy, immunotherapy, or radiation) is needed, and if so, what the right approach looks like for your specific diagnosis and stage.
You may never sit in the room where your tumor board review takes place, but the impact of that meeting is felt throughout your entire treatment experience. It means your care plan has been reviewed from multiple angles before it's finalized, that nothing has been overlooked, and that, when your provider sits down with you to discuss next steps, she's doing so with the full weight of a multidisciplinary team's expertise.
A tumor board conference is a meeting where specialists from multiple areas of oncology come together to review a patient's case and collaborate on a treatment plan. At Whole Health Oncology, this meeting happens weekly and includes gynecologic, medical, and radiation oncologists, radiologists, pathologists, and oncology nurse navigators.
Yes. Every cancer case seen at Whole Health Oncology is brought to the biweekly cancer tumor board for review. This isn't something reserved for the most complicated diagnoses; it's a standard part of how we approach comprehensive cancer care for every patient, because we believe every person deserves the benefit of a full team's perspective.
The tumor board review directly informs your cancer treatment planning. After reviewing your imaging, surgical findings, and pathology, the team uses NCCN guidelines to determine whether adjuvant therapies like chemotherapy, immunotherapy, or radiation are warranted. Your provider then brings those findings into your care conversation, so you're always making decisions with the most complete, expert-backed picture available.
Scheduling with Whole Health Oncology is easy. Either ask your gynecologist or primary care physician to fax us a referral to (904) 925-3351, give us a call at (904) 373-1177, or request an appointment online. Our patient coordinators will reach out to walk you through the next steps. We’re located in St. Augustine, Florida, and see patients from across Northeast Florida, including Palm Coast and the greater Jacksonville area. We look forward to welcoming you!