Abstract
The Hokkaido Cancer Center belongs to the national hospital organization and has been designated a state cancer hospital. Many cancer patients from all over Hokkaido visit our hospital for treatment.
To efficiently treat any intraoral adverse events of cancer patients, the department of Dentistry and Oral Surgery was established in 2012, and in 2016 it increased treatment availability from 2 days to 5 days a week.
With the exception of the university hospital, there had been no state cancer hospital with separate oral cancer treatment and oral supportive care departments until the establishment of the Department of Clinical Oral Oncology in our hospital in 2016. Cooperation between other co-medical staff in the hospital is necessary to provide high quality perioperative oral management. In addition to securing continuity of oral management for the cancer patients, cooperation between the general practice dentists is essential.
As dentists working in the department of dentistry and oral surgery in a state cancer hospital, we should recruit cooperative cancer dentists, with assistance from the Hokkaido Dental Association, to treat oral adverse events. In this symposium, we reported on the medical-dentistry cooperation system in our hospital.
