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Videos of NCCN Breast Cancer Experts and Resources to Guide Treatment Offered on NCCN.com
NCCN.com features a number of breast cancer resources including videos of experts and patient-friendly guidelines that enable patients and caregivers to take an active role in making treatment decisions.
FORT WASHINGTON, PA — Breast Cancer Awareness Month may be coming to a close, but the National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) offers resources to help patients with breast cancer understand their options and arrive at the best treatment plan any day of the year. Whether women are interested in breast cancer screening, making treatment decisions, or staying well after treatment, NCCN.com features a number of patient-friendly tools and resources available free of charge including:
- Videos of experts from NCCN Member Institutions answering important questions about breast cancer, including diagnosis and treatment concerns.
- A newly updated version of the NCCN Guidelines for Patients™: Breast Cancer, available on-line as well as in a printed booklet. To request a hard copy of this resource, email abdalian@nccn.org.
- Additional articles, including tip sheets, focusing on all facets of breast cancer to support patients, caregivers, and survivors.
The NCCN Guidelines for Patients™ are translations of the professional NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®), which physicians around the globe use when determining appropriate cancer treatment. Although breast cancer is a complex disease, the NCCN Guidelines for Patients™ presents the same information that physicians use when making treatment decisions in an easy-to-understand format for patients.
Through NCCN.com, NCCN aims to educate people about cancer so they can have more informed conversations with their health care providers and ultimately live longer and better quality lives. NCCN.com includes information on all facets of cancer, from prevention and screening through life after cancer.