NCCN Guidelines Updates: Breast Cancer

Prostate cancer, Version 3.2012: featured updates to the NCCN guidelines.

The NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines) for Prostate Cancer provide multidisciplinary recommendations for the clinical management of patients with prostate cancer. These NCCN Guidelines Insights highlight notable recent updates. Abiraterone acetate is a first-in-class hormonal agent that represents a new standard of care for patients with metastatic castration-recurr...

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Discrepancies between ESMO and NCCN breast cancer guidelines: An appraisal.

An ever growing number of medical organizations, societies, working groups and governmental agencies issue algorithms i.e. guidelines, of decision making flowcharts in diagnosis and treatment in a variety of diseases. In the field of evidence-based diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer, a large number of guidelines are available both from medical associations and national health departments....

Oropharynx Cancer compliance with NCCN guidelines

Findings: There were 153 cases of mucosal head and neck cancer diagnosed between 2004 and 2009. The 2009 cases have only been fully abstracted through October when this report was run. Of the 153 cases coded to head and neck, there were 3 cases of lymphoma and one Kaposis’s sarcoma which were excluded from this analysis leaving 149 head and neck cancers of mucosal origin for this study. The stu...

NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®) Myelodysplastic Syndromes

NCCN All recommendations are category 2A unless otherwise specified. See believes that the best management for any cancer patient is in a clinical trial. Participation in clinical trials is especially encouraged. NCCN To find clinical trials online at NCCN Member Institutions, click here: nccn.org/clinical_trials/physician.html. The NCCN Guidelines are a statement of evidence and consensus of t...