New NCCN Guidelines: Smoking Cessation for Patients With Cancer

Smoking Cessation, Version 1.2016, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology.

Cigarette smoking has been implicated in causing many cancers and cancer deaths. There is mounting evidence indicating that smoking negatively impacts cancer treatment efficacy and overall survival. The NCCN Guidelines for Smoking Cessation have been created to emphasize the importance of smoking cessation and establish an evidence-based standard of care in all patients with cancer. These guide...

NCCN Publishes New Clinical Practice Guidelines for Vulvar Cancer.

FORT WASHINGTON, PA — It is estimated that more than 5,000 cases of Vulvar Cancer were diagnosed in the United States in 2015, and approximately 1,000 women died from the disease i . In order to provide comprehensive, up-to-date clinical treatment guidelines for this rare cancer, the National Comprehensive Cancer Network ® (NCCN ® ), an alliance of 26 of the nation’s leading cancer centers, has...

Helping people to stop smoking: the new smoking cessation guidelines.

Cigarette smoking is probably the most damaging of all voluntary human behaviour. Half of all smokers die prematurely as a consequence of their own smoking, 1 and in 1995 in the UK alone smoking accounted for over 120 000 deaths, of which about 65 000 were due to respiratory disease. 2 In addition to the harm caused to smokers themselves, passive exposure of other adults to cigarette smoke is a...

Oropharynx Cancer compliance with NCCN guidelines

Findings: There were 153 cases of mucosal head and neck cancer diagnosed between 2004 and 2009. The 2009 cases have only been fully abstracted through October when this report was run. Of the 153 cases coded to head and neck, there were 3 cases of lymphoma and one Kaposis’s sarcoma which were excluded from this analysis leaving 149 head and neck cancers of mucosal origin for this study. The stu...

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