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 The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), with the support of the NCCN Foundation, announces the latest addition to the library of NCCN Guidelines for Patients™, the NCCN Guidelines for Patients™: Colon Cancer. This resource is a patient-friendly, easy-to-understand translation of the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®) for Colon Cancer, which physicians use when determining appropriate cancer treatment. The NCCN Guidelines for Patients™ aim to help people with cancer and their loved ones discuss the best treatment options for them with their physicians.
Through the support of the NCCN Foundation, NCCN now offers a library of nine NCCN Guidelines for Patients™, including those on breast, colon, ovarian, non-small cell lung, and prostate cancers, as well as chronic myelogenous leukemia, malignant pleural mesothelioma, melanoma, and multiple myeloma.
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NCCN.com Tip of the Month
Following surgery, at the onset of treatment, or at the start of a new or increased dosage of a medication, you should have a discussion with your physician about possible side effects, pain, or other reactions. Make sure you have a good idea of when it is important for you to contact your doctor or seek immediate attention. Click here to learn more about when to call your doctor or visit the emergency room.
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NCCN Member Institution Spotlight
A good idea was made better, as the University of Michigan Health System improved how it attracts the people most at risk to its annual free head and neck cancer screening clinic in September of 2010.
A research study analyzing data from the U-M clinics held 1996 to 2009 showed that participants were at higher risk for suspicious lesions when the following risk factors were present: neck mass or oral pain, tobacco use, lack of health insurance, male gender, and separated marital status.
At the clinic held on April1 7, 2010 organizers refined their usual recruitment strategy based on the study results.
"We reached out more personally and more broadly," says Norman D. Hogikyan, M.D., professor of otolaryngology at the U-M Medical School, who has directed the clinics since their inception 14 years ago and is the senior author of the research study.
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