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National Comprehensive Cancer Network

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The NCCN/American Cancer Society partnership.

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) partnered with the American Cancer Society two years ago in an effort to translate the NCCN Practice Guidelines for professionals into guidelines for patients. The response from patients to the first two guidelines was overwhelmingly positive. The following panel discussion provides some background information on this alliance and discusses the development and highlights of their latest collaboration, the Colorectal Cancer Patient Guidelines.

American Cancer Society↗
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The NCCN guidelines development process and infrastructure.

A major task of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) is to develop pathways reflecting the major step-by-step management decisions required to provide care for patients with cancer. The determination of what is appropriate care involves assessing the balance between the sum of the benefits compared to the sum of the risks. The guidelines are composed of recommendations based on the best evidence available at the time they are derived. Each guideline is reviewed annually and once revisions have been uniformly accepted, the new version becomes the official NCCN guideline for that year.

Humans↗
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NCCN Practice Guidelines for Breast Cancer.

The therapeutic options for patients with noninvasive or invasive breast cancer are complex and varied. In many situations, the patient and physician have the responsibility to jointly explore and ultimately select the most appropriate option from among the available alternatives. With rare exception, the evaluation, treatment, and follow-up recommendations contained within these guidelines were based largely on the results of past and present clinical trials. However, there is not a single clinical situation in which the treatment of breast cancer has been optimized with respect to either maximizing cure or minimizing toxicity and disfigurement. Therefore, patient and physician participation in prospective clinical trials allows patients not only to receive state-of-the-art cancer treatment but also to contribute to the improvement of treatment of future patients.

Breast Neoplasms↗