National Comprehensive Cancer Network

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www.nccn.org

National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) is an alliance of twenty-one cancer centers from across the United States.

Mission

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) works to improve care along the continuum of cancer screening, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up. A not-for-profit alliance of twenty-one cancer centers, NCCN communicates evaluative clinical information to patients, physicians, and others involved in cancer care. The primary goal of all NCCN initiatives is to improve the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of oncology practice.

NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology™

The NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology™ strive to be the most comprehensive and most frequently updated clinical practice guidelines available in any area of medicine. Covering 97 percent of all cancers and updated on a continual basis, these guidelines are developed through an explicit review of the evidence integrated with expert medical judgment by multidisciplinary panels from NCCN Member Institutions. Treatment recommendations are specific and are implemented through performance measurement.

NCCN Guidelines Panels address cancer detection, prevention and risk reduction, workup and diagnosis, treatment and supportive care. NCCN Guidelines have become the most widely used guidelines in oncology practice and have been requested by cancer care professionals in over 115 countries.

NCCN/ACS Treatment Guidelines for Patients

Produced in collaboration with the American Cancer Society (ACS), Treatment Guidelines for Patients provide cost-free, specific, and understandable information that patients and their families can use to make timely and well-informed decisions about cancer treatment. Developed from the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology™, the patient versions of the guidelines describe diagnosis and treatment of frequently occurring cancers and supportive care issues in an easy-to-read format. These guidelines provide patients access to the same decision pathways their oncologists use.

Booklets are available in English and Spanish.

Booklets about the treatment of cancer by site

• Bladder Cancer
  
• Breast Cancer
  
• Colon and Rectal Cancers
  
• Lung Cancer
  
• Melanoma
  
• Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
  
• Ovarian Cancer
  
• Prostate Cancer
  

Booklets about supportive care

• Advanced Cancer and Palliative Care
  
• Cancer Pain
  
• Cancer-Related Fatigue and Anemia
  
• Distress
  
• Fever and Neutropenia
  
• Nausea and Vomiting
  

NCCN also provides information about clinical trials to patients.

NCCN Member Institutions

• City of Hope * Los Angeles, CA
  
  
• Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Institute
  Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center * Boston, MA
  
  
• Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center * Durham, NC
  
  
• Fox Chase Cancer Center * Philadelphia, PA
  
  
• Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah * Salt Lake City, UT
  
  
• Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/Seattle Cancer Care Alliance * Seattle, WA
  
  
• Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital & Richard J. Solove Research Institute at
  Ohio State University * Columbus, OH
  
  
• The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University * Baltimore, MD
  
  
• Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University * Chicago, IL
  
  
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center * New York, NY
  
  
• H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute at the University of South Florida * Tampa, FL
  
  
• Roswell Park Cancer Institute * Buffalo, NY
  
  
• Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and
  Washington University School of Medicine * St. Louis, MO
  
  
• St. Jude Children's Research Hospital/University of Tennessee Cancer Institute * Memphis, TN
  
  
• Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center * Stanford, CA
  
  
• University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center * Birmingham, AL
  
  
• UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center * San Francisco, CA
  
  
• University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center * Ann Arbor, MI
  
  
• UNMC Eppley Cancer Center at The Nebraska Medical Center * Omaha, NE
  
  
• The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center * Houston, TX
  
  
• Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center * Nashville, TN
  
  

External Links

National Comprehensive Cancer Network
WebMD Cancer Care
American Cancer Society

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NCCN Member Institution Map