Nccn Enhances Widely Used Breast Cancer Guidelines With Advanced Digital Features

Today, nan National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®)-a nonprofit responsible for globally utilized guidelines for crab care-is sharing new NCCN Guidelines Navigator™ resources for bosom crab curen arsenic good arsenic genetic/familial high-risk assessment, during Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Since launching pinch 3 digitized versions of NCCN's benchmark evidence-based objective believe guidelines earlier this year, NCCN has quickly expanded readiness to much than a twelve topics. The interactive format makes recommendations easier to navigate and hunt and links straight to different NCCN integer resources.

"The NCCN Guidelines Navigator enables wellness attraction providers to quickly find and understand nan champion disposable evidence-based options for treating each individual person," said Crystal S. Denlinger, MD, Chief Executive Officer, NCCN.

The intuitive travel successful nan NCCN Guidelines Navigator supports easier curen decision-making based connected nan latest grounds and expert-consensus. We are pleased to beryllium capable to grant Breast Cancer Awareness Month by making immoderate of our astir wide utilized guidelines disposable successful aggregate formats, yet starring to amended outcomes for group facing crab and their loved ones."

Crystal S. Denlinger, MD, Chief Executive Officer, National Comprehensive Cancer Network

Features and expanding availability

The NCCN Guidelines Navigator™ features contented from nan NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines successful Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®)-the astir frequently-updated objective believe guidelines disposable successful immoderate area of medicine. NCCN Guidelines® cover everything from crab prevention, to screening, diagnosis, treatment, survivorship, and supportive care. The caller format incorporates seamless movement, precocious hunt and select capabilities, color-coded navigation links, and different integer enhancements.

The full room of NCCN Guidelines will yet beryllium accessible successful some nan existent PDF format arsenic good arsenic nan new, digitized versions. Currently, nan NCCN Guidelines Navigator™ is disposable for nan pursuing crab types and topics:

• B-Cell Lymphomas
• Bladder Cancer
• Breast Cancer
• Colon Cancer
• Genetic/Familial High Risk Assessment: Breast, Ovarian, Pancreatic, and Prostate
• Head and Neck Cancers
• Hepatocellular Carcinoma
• Kidney Cancer
• Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
• Ovarian Cancer/Fallopian Tube Cancer/Primary Peritoneal Cancer
• Prostate Cancer
• Rectal Cancer
• Uterine Neoplasms

"The NCCN Guidelines were accessed much than 16 cardinal times successful nan past almanac twelvemonth overall-with nan bosom crab curen guidelines accounting for astir 10 percent of that total," said William J. Gradishar, MD, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center astatine Northwestern University, Chair of nan NCCN Guidelines Panel for Breast Cancer. "Breast crab prevention, screening, and guidance is based connected analyzable and quickly evolving information, impacting millions of group worldwide. We've seen endurance rates amended dramatically acknowledgment to technological advances that thief wellness attraction providers lucifer nan correct attack to nan correct person. The caller NCCN Guidelines Navigator format allows america to merge different resources for improving attraction into 1 hub for objective guidance, patient/caregiver empowerment, and master development."

Seamless integration and early enhancements

The NCCN Guidelines Navigator™ integrates NCCN Chemotherapy Order Templates (NCCN Templates®) smoothly into point-of-care successful bid to amended nan information and convenience of narcotics and biologics usage. The NCCN Templates® standardize diligent care, trim medicine errors, and thief providers to expect and negociate treatment-related adverse events.

Additionally, group who entree nan NCCN Guidelines successful immoderate format, including via nan NCCN Guidelines Navigator™, tin gain CE/MOC credits successful existent clip pinch an NCCN Guidelines successful Practice™ subscription.

The NCCN Guidelines Navigator™ besides provides easy entree to the NCCN Guidelines for Patients®, which coming nan accusation from nan objective guidelines successful laic person-centered position pinch a glossary and pictures to assistance successful diligent acquisition and shared determination making.

In nan months since nan first beta testing launch, nan NCCN Guidelines Navigator™ has been accessed much than 50,000 times and received highly affirmative feedback. According to a study response: "The NCCN Guidelines Navigator does a awesome occupation of making nan existing NCCN Guideline searchable and accessible. The hunt usability quickly suggests applicable sections of nan guideline, on pinch footnotes, references, and regimen information."