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NCCN Supports the Global Fight against Cancer on World Cancer Day 2016
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) is proud to support World Cancer Day 2016 and take action to reduce the impact that cancer has on individuals, families, and communities.
With more than 14 million people affected by cancer each year, it is our mission, an alliance of 26 of the leading cancer centers, to improve the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of cancer care so that patients can live better lives.
Each year, NCCN’s esteemed experts volunteer more than 26,000 hours to create the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®). These Guidelines arm clinicians, patients, and other stakeholders with the information necessary to lead to optimal outcomes following a diagnosis, as well as cancer detection, prevention, and risk reduction, and supportive care and age-related considerations.
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To make use of the NCCN Guidelines® easier and more relevant to worldwide constituents, NCCN offers more than 80 language translations of the Guidelines. Moreover, we collaborate with physician groups outside the United States to develop regional adaptations of the NCCN Guidelines, taking into account resources and metabolic differences within each population. This year and onward, we look to further growing the library of resources.
> Visit NCCN.org/Global
NCCN understands the need to support our colleagues in low- and middle-income countries with varying resources where certain diagnostic tests and/or treatment approaches may be unavailable. To define appropriate treatment pathways at four resources levels, NCCN has published the NCCN Framework for Resource Stratification of NCCN Guidelines (NCCN Framework™) for health care providers to identify treatment options that will provide the best possible outcomes given specific resource constraints.
> Visit NCCN.org/Framework
Finally, to further empower patients and provide insight into their disease and treatment options, the NCCN Foundation® offers a library of NCCN Guidelines for Patients®. These free education resources translate NCCN’s clinical guidelines into easy-to-understand language to help patients talk with their physicians and make informed choices about their course of treatment.
> Visit NCCN.org/Patients
We are proud to offer these and other resources for individual use free of charge to stakeholders around the globe, and we look forward to continued global empowerment in the fight against cancer.
WE CAN educate. WE CAN empower. WE CAN improve the lives of people with cancer.
For more information about World Cancer Day 2016, visit WorldCancerDay.org.