cancer cancer guidelines clinical trials cancer patients oncology cancer physicians cancer hospitals oncology
NCCN - National Comprehensive Cancer Network National Comprehensive Cancer Network Homepage Patients with Cancer Cancer Clinicians Cancer Industry About National Comprehensive Cancer Network

 

Contact Us / Privacy Policy

 

Download the PDF booklet

Order a printed copy of the booklet


Contents

 

Introduction

Detection

Stages

Treatment

Side Effects

Glossary

Help


Decision Trees

Work-Up (Evaluation)

Low Recurrence Risk

High Risk of Recurrence or Spread

Recurrence Follow-up

Return After Radical Prostatectomy

Return After Radiation Therapy

Systemic Treatment, Widespread

 

 

   
 

Authors and NCCN Panel Members

American Cancer Society

The Prostate 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

Kimberly A. Stump-Sutliff, MS, RN, AOCNS
American Cancer Society

Joan McClure, MS
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

Dorothy A. Shead, MS
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

Elizabeth Brown, MD
National Comprehensive Cancer Network

James Mohler, MD
Roswell Park Cancer Institute


The NCCN Prostate Cancer Clinical Practice Guidelines and Prostate Cancer Early Detection Clinical Practice Guidelines were developed by the following NCCN Panel Members:

Richard J. Babaian, MD
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Robert R. Bahnson, MD
Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital & Richard J. Solove Research Institute at The Ohio State University

Barry Boston, MD
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital/University of Tennessee Cancer Institute

Anthony D’Amico, MD, PhD
Dana Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center | Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center

James A Eastham, MD
Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center

Ralph J. Hauke, MD
UNMC Eppley Cancer Center at
The Nebraska Medical Center

Robert P. Huben, MD
Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Philip Kantoff, MD
Dana-Farber/ Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center | Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center

Mark Kawachi, MD
City of Hope

Michael Kuettel, MD, PhD, MB
Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Paul H. Lange, MD
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

Chris Logothetis, MD
The University of Texas
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Gary MacVicar, MD
Robert H. Laurie Comprehensive Cancer Center at Northwestern University

James Mohler, MD
Roswell Park Cancer Institute

Alan Pollack, MD, PhD
Fox Chase Cancer Center

Julio M. Pow-Sang, MD
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
and Research Institute at the University of South Florida

Mack Roach, III, MD
UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center

Howard Sandler, MD
University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center

Dennis Shrieve, MD
Huntsman Cancer Institute
at the University of Utah

Sandra Srinivas, MD
Stanford Comprehensive
Cancer Center

Przemyslaw Twardowski, MD
City of Hope

Donald A. Urban, MD
University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center

Patrick C. Walsh, MD
The Sidney Kimmell Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins

 

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).

 

© 2007 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.

 

Educational Opportunities

NCCN 1st Annual Forum: Innovative Diagnostics & Therapeutics in Cancer Care™

September 4, 2008
New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge
New York, New York

NCCN 3rd Annual Congress: Hematologic Malignancies™

September 5 – 6, 2008
New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge
New York, New York


Exhibitor Information


NCCN Regional Guidelines Symposia

NCCN Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Guidelines Symposium
Birmingham, Michigan (Friday, September 12, 2008)

NCCN Breast Cancer Guidelines Symposium
Durham, North Carolina (Monday, September 22, 2008)

NCCN Colon and Rectal Cancers Guidelines Symposia
New York , New York (Tuesday, September 23, 2008)

NCCN Head and Neck Cancers Guidelines Symposia
Omaha, Nebraska (Friday, October 10, 2008)

NCCN Breast Cancer Guidelines Symposium
Tampa, Florida (Monday, October 20, 2008)

NCCN Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Guidelines Symposium
Durham, North Carolina (Monday, November 03, 2008)

More Events ....


NCCN International

Chinese – 中文

Japanese –日本語

NCCN Privacy Policy NCCN Legal Disclaimer NCCN Site Map Contact NCCN Home National Comprehensive Cancer Network