Financial Relationships With Industry Among National Comprehensive Cancer Network Guideline Authors

Clinicopathologic features, patterns of recurrence, and survival among women with triple-negative breast cancer in the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to describe clinicopathologic features, patterns of recurrence, and survival according to breast cancer subtype with a focus on triple-negative tumors. METHODS In total, 15,204 women were evaluated who presented to National Comprehensive Cancer Network centers with stage I through III breast cancer between January 2000 and December 2006. Tumors were ...

A national survey of physician-industry relationships.

BACKGROUND Relationships between physicians and pharmaceutical, medical device, and other medically related industries have received considerable attention in recent years. We surveyed physicians to collect information about their financial associations with industry and the factors that predict those associations. METHODS We conducted a national survey of 3167 physicians in six specialties (...

Benchmarks in clinical productivity: a national comprehensive cancer network survey.

PURPOSE Oncologists in academic cancer centers usually generate professional fees that are insufficient to cover salaries and other expenses, despite significant clinical activity; therefore, supplemental funding is frequently required in order to support competitive levels of physician compensation. Relative value units (RVUs) allow comparisons of productivity across institutions and practice ...

Prereferral head and neck cancer treatment: compliance with national comprehensive cancer network treatment guidelines.

OBJECTIVE to evaluate the prereferral treatment of patients referred to our tertiary care center with recurrent or persistent head and neck cancer for compliance with National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) guidelines. DESIGN a prospective recruitment and retrospective chart review. PATIENTS the study included new patients identified at multidisciplinary treatment planning conference f...

Authorship and industry financial relationships: the tie that binds.