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Contents

 

Introduction

Goals

Hospice

Advance Care

Support

Dying

Glossary

Help


Decision Trees

Assessment

Benefits

Treatment Goals

Symptoms

Advance Care

Social Support

Complex Care

Final Days

Care for Family and Caregivers

 

 

   
 

Authors and NCCN Panel Members

American Cancer Society

The Advanced Cancer and Palliative Care Treatment Guideline for Patients were developed by a diverse group of experts and were based on the NCCN clinical practice guidelines. These patient guidelines were written for patients, reviewed, and published with the help from the following individuals:
 

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

Karen Russell, MS, RN
American Cancer Society

Michael H. Levy, MD, PhD
Fox Chase Cancer Center

Rodger Winn, MD
National Comprehensive
Cancer Network

Shannan Rafine
National Comprehensive
Cancer Network

Joan McClure, MS
National Comprehensive
Cancer Network

 

The original NCCN Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guidelines were developed by the following NCCN Panel Members:
 

Michael H. Levy, MD, PhD/Chair
Fox Chase Cancer Center

Anthony Beck, MD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

Costantino Benedetti, MD
Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital & Richard J. Solove Research Institute at The Ohio State University

J. Andrew Billings, MD
Massachusetts General Hospital

Susan Block, MD
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Eduardo Bruera, MD
University of Texas
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center

Lara Campagna, PA
Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center

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

Pam Dotson, RN, MBA
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital/University of Tennessee Cancer Institute

Catherine Eberle, MD
UNMC Eppley Cancer Center
at the University of Nebraska
Medical Center

Kathleen M. Foley, MD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center

Sara J. Knight, PhD
UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center

Mark J. Lema, MD, PhD
Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Robert Milch, MD
Richard Payne, MD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center

Michelle Rhiner, RN, NP
City of Hope Cancer Center

Neal Slatkin, MD
City of Hope Cancer Center

David Spiegel, MD
Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center

Linda Sutton, MD
Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center

Muriel Thompson, LCSW
University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive
Cancer Center

Susan Urba, MD
University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center

Jamie H Von Roenn, MD
Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern
University

Sharon M. Weinstein, MD
Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah

Michael A. Weitzner, MD
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
and Research Institute at the University of South Florida

 

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).

 

© 2004 by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) and the American Cancer Society (ACS). All rights reserved. The information herein may not be reproduced in any form for commercial purposes or downloaded and stored in any information-retrieval system without the express written permission of the NCCN and the ACS. Single copies of each page may be printed out for personal, noncommercial use only.

 

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