About the Authors

Muhammad Abdul Rehman

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

abdurehman528@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Dow Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan

Unaiza Naeem

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Dow Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan

Anooja Rani

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Dow Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan

Umm E. Salma Shabbar Banatwala

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Dow Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan

Afia Salman

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Dow Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan

Muhammad Abdullah Khalid

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Dow Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan

Areeba Ikram

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Dow Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan

Erfa Tahir

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Dow Medical College, Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi, Pakistan

Competing Interests

All authors of this review work with, or have worked with, the not-for-profit organization, “Tumor Board Establishment Facilitation Forum (TEFF)”. TEFF is a student-run organization that helps establish, and offers access to, multidisciplinary tumor boards at the tertiary care hospital, Dr. Ruth Pfau Civil Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.