NCCN: Touched by Cancer

NCCN: Touched by Cancer.

Joan S. McClure, MS, is Senior Vice President of Clinical Information and Publications for NCCN. Ms. McClure’s group develops the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines), associated NCCN Guidelines for Patients, the NCCN Drugs & Biologics Compendium (NCCN Compendium), NCCN Chemotherapy Orders Templates (NCCN Templates), the NCCN Biomarkers Compendium, and JNCCN—Journal o...

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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...

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When Blood Is Touched

The development of blood-compatible materials is reviewed. It grew from originally simplistic views of physical requirements such as surface charge and wettability, to endothelial cells seeded onto a biodegradable cast, and tissue engineering. In vitro findings grew from the discovery of one specific protein being adsorbed, to that of sequential protein adsorption with complex implications of p...