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Palliative care, Version 1.2014. Featured updates to the NCCN Guidelines.

Michael H Levy1, Thomas Smith1, Amy Alvarez-Perez1

  • 1From Fox Chase Cancer Center; The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins; Roswell Park Cancer Institute; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center/Seattle Cancer Care Alliance; St. Jude Children's Research Hospital/The University of Tennessee Health Science Center; Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center; Moffitt Cancer Center; The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center; Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine; University of Colorado Cancer Center; University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center; Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center; UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center; Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center at The Nebraska Medical Center; Stanford Cancer Institute; Duke Cancer Institute; The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute; Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center; City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center; Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah; and National Comprehensive Cancer Network.

Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN
|October 15, 2014
PubMed
Summary

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) updated its palliative care guidelines for cancer patients. These updates emphasize earlier integration of palliative care and advance care planning for improved patient-centered outcomes.

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