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Contents

 

Introduction

Work-Up

Stages

Treatment

Side Effects

Glossary

Help


Decision Trees

Colon:

Cancerous Polyps

Colon Cancer

Adjuvant Treatment

Metastases

Metastases to Liver

Metastases not Liver

Recurrent

Chemotherapy
 

Rectal:

Treatment

Early Stages

Large Cancers

Metastases

Unremovable Metastases

Recurrent

Chemotherapy

 

 

   
 

Authors and NCCN Panel Members

American Cancer Society

The Colon and Rectal Cancer Treatment Guidelines for Patients were developed by a diverse group of experts and were based on the NCCN clinical practice guidelines. These patient guidelines were translated, reviewed, and published with help from the following individuals:
 

Terri Ades, MS, APRN-BC, AOCN
American Cancer Society

Al B. Benson III, MD
Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University

Paul F. Engstrom, MD, FACP Fox Chase Cancer Center

Herman Kattlove, MD,
American Cancer Society

Pamela McAllister, PhD
Colon Cancer Survivor

Joan McClure, MS
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

Shannan Rafine
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

 
The NCCN Colon and Rectal Cancer Clinical Practice Guidelines were developed by the following NCCN Panel Members.
 

Al B. Benson III, MD
Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University

Yi-Jen Chen, MD, PhD
City of Hope Cancer Center

Michael A. Choti, MD
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

Raza A. Dilawari, MD
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital/University of Tennessee Cancer Institute

Paul F. Engstrom, MD/ Chair
Fox Chase Cancer Center

Charles Enke, MD
UNMC Eppley Cancer Center at the Nebraska Medical Center

Marwan Fakih, MD
Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Charles Fuchs, MD
Dana-Farber/Partners CancerCare

Krystyna Kiel , MD
Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University

James A. Knol, MD
University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center

Lucille Leong, MD City of Hope Cancer Center

Edward W. Martin Jr., MD
Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital & Richard J. Solove Research Institute at The Ohio State University

Sujata Rao , MD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

M. Wasif Saif, MD
University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center

Leonard Saltz, MD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Kirk Ludwig , MD
Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center

 

For more information on these treatment guidelines, or on cancer in general, call the NCCN at 1-888-909-NCCN or the American Cancer Society at 1-800-ACS-2345. Or you can visit these organizations’ web sites at www.cancer.org (ACS) and www.nccn.org (NCCN).

 

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