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Head and neck cancers, version 2.2013. Featured updates to the NCCN guidelines

David G Pfister1, Kie-Kian Ang, David M Brizel

  • 1From 1Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; 2The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; 3Duke Cancer Institute; 4Fox Chase Cancer Center; 5Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center; 6Moffitt Cancer Center; 7Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center; 8Stanford Cancer Institute; 9The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins; 10The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute; 11Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center; 12Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine; 13Roswell Park Cancer Institute; 14Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah; 15UNMC Eppley Cancer Center at The Nebraska Medical Center; 16City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center; 17University of Washington/Seattle Cancer Care Alliance; 18Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University; 19St. Jude Children's Research Hospital/The University of Tennessee Health Science Center; 20University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center; 21University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center; 22UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center; and 23National Comprehensive Cancer Network.

Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN
|August 16, 2013
PubMed
Summary

These NCCN Guidelines Insights highlight recent updates to nutrition and supportive care for head and neck cancer patients. These crucial recommendations are now integrated into the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines for Oncology.

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