Multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity in medicine and education as a tool for improving the quality of patients’ antitumor treatment

Relevance. Despite the advances in modern medicine, the improvement of treatment methods for many diseases, the overall incidence of cancer, as well as mortality from cancer, remains high. At the same time, the approaches to antitumor treatment themselves often significantly reduce the quality of life of patients, limit their ability to work, which causes certain social and economic damage from these diseases. In this regard, issues of improving the quality of antitumor treatment are among the priority issues in healthcare today. The purpose of this study is to find new possible tools and approaches to improve the quality of antitumor treatment for patients at different levels, including clinical and educational. It is possible to significantly change and improve the quality of oncological care for patients through the tools and technologies of accompanying therapy, including dental support, the clinical significance of which is critically underestimated today. Improving the methods of accompanying therapy is a multidisciplinary problem that can and should be solved exclusively in the context of interdisciplinary interaction of specialists of different profiles. Currently, the development of dental support is limited by a number of factors, such as clinical or organizational, but one of the most significant factors is the insufficient focus on this problem in medical education. Of course, the current pace of development of medicine, the introduction of new technologies, including artificial intelligence, increase the requirements for a modern specialist doctor and require extensive knowledge that goes beyond one discipline, including the presence of interdisciplinary thinking. Conclusion.Thus, the introduction of interdisciplinary approaches in the training of future dentists and doctors specializing in «General Medicine», training students at the intersection of different specialties (oncology and dentistry, dentistry and hematology) can improve the quality of dental support in particular, and the quality of antitumor treatment in general.