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NCCN welcomes the opportunity to work with reporters on all cancer-related topics. NCCN offers members of the media access to scientific and medical experts, news releases, background research, and much more. We can also help connect press with investigators and clinicians who can discuss research, treatment and issues related to cancer through coordination with media contacts at NCCN Member Institutions.

For news, interviews, photo requests or the most current information and resources available, please contact:

Katie Kiley Brown
Communications Manager
215.690.0238
brown@nccn.org
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Note: NCCN neither reviews nor approves press releases announcing the inclusion of tests, agents, and/or therapies listed within the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®). For any additional commercial use of NCCN Content in promotional and educational materials, NCCN requires a license and review of content.

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Press kits, media advisories, and information on upcoming events.

Press Releases

• NCCN Guidelines to be Integrated into the Evinance Decision Support Platform  (08/23/2017)
• New NCCN Patient Resources for Rectal Cancer Now Available  (08/11/2017)
• Black Men Have Lowest Survival Rates Among Patients with Anal Cancer  (08/09/2017)
• NCCN Foundation Announces Fifth 2017 Young Investigator Award   (08/07/2017)

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Health Care Policy News

• Narrow Insurance Networks Leave Patients with Little Choice   (07/06/2017)
• What’s Next? NCCN Gathers Health Care Policy Experts to Deliberate Challenges to Patient Safety and Access to Cancer Care under the New Administration   (06/01/2017)
• NCCN Survey: AHCA Would Impede Overall Access to Cancer Treatment (The Cancer Letter)  (04/25/2017)
• NCCN Survey Reveals Oncology’s Concerns about Financial Distress, Patient Access to Care  (04/19/2017)

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NCCN eBulletin Newsletter

August 7, 2017 | Volume 9 Issue 16

• Free NCCN Pocket Guidelines Available for Prostate Cancer
• NCCN “Just Bag It!” Campaign Reaches 100 Adopters Nationwide
• NCCN Foundation Announces Fifth 2017 Young Investigator Award
• NCCN Flash Update: NCCN Guidelines with NCCN Evidence Blocks™ Updated

July 24, 2017 | Volume 9 Issue 15

• Empowering Patients to Talk about Sex
• Spanish Translation Now Available for NCCN Guidelines for Patients: Kidney Cancer
• NCCN Guidelines and NCCN Templates to be Integrated into ION Solutions’ IntelliDoseTxM Treatment Management Module
• Appropriate Distress Screening and Follow Up Leads to Fewer ER Visits and Hospitalizations in Patients with Cancer, Study Finds
• NCCN Flash Update: NCCN Guidelines^® & NCCN Compendium^® Updated

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NCCN in the News

• September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month (WOAY-TV ABC)  (08/18/2017)
• Few Women with History of Breast and Ovarian Cancer Take Recommended Genetic Test (UCLA Fielding School of Public Health)  (08/18/2017)
• New NCCN Patient Resources for Rectal Cancer Now Available  (08/11/2017)
• Black Men Have Lowest Survival Rates Among Patients with Anal Cancer  (08/09/2017)

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NCCN Member Institutions in the News

• Link between Air Pollution and Cancer Risk (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/Seattle Cancer Care Alliance)  (08/18/2017)
• GIST Tumors Linked To NF1 Mutations, Genetic Testing Needed (UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center)  (08/18/2017)
• Lab Tests Show Molecule Appears to Spur Cell Death in Tumors, Inflammation (Duke Cancer Institute)  (08/17/2017)
• Cancer is Way More Likely to Kill You if You Rely on “Natural” Therapies (Popular Science)  (08/17/2017)

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