Statement from Prostate Guideline Panel
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Source: National Comprehensive Cancer Network - October 26, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news

NCCN Collaborates with Pfizer on Program Focused on Health Care Quality Improvement and Education
NCCN and Pfizer will elicit proposals for quality improvement and education in rare cancer types; Grants to provide funding for approximately nine proposals focused on patients with renal cell carcinoma or hematologic malignancies FORT WASHINGTON, PA - The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®) Oncology Research Program (ORP) is collaborating with Pfizer Independent Grants for Learning & Change (IGLC) to establish a peer-reviewed grant program to elicit proposals focused on heal... (Source: National Comprehensive Cancer Network)
Source: National Comprehensive Cancer Network - October 17, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news

NCCN, McKesson Specialty Health, and The US Oncology Network Announce Plans for Integration with Elekta and Varian
McKesson Specialty Health`s Clear Value Plus regimen quality support tool to be integrated with additional systems; Value Pathways Powered by NCCN expanding to include radiation oncology FORT WASHINGTON, PA - The National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®), The US Oncology Network, and McKesson Specialty Health are pleased to announce agreements to provide future integration with Elekta and Varian that will enhance the ability to provide cancer patients with evidence-based quality care. ... (Source: National Comprehensive Cancer Network)
Source: National Comprehensive Cancer Network - September 29, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news

“Breast Cancer: Online Tools Can Improve Patient Outlook”, City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
Breast cancer treatment can be not only daunting, but depressing, with 15 to 25 percent of cancer patients suffering from depression, according to the National Cancer Institute. A study out of City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center-one of the 23 NCCN Member Institutions-found that online intervention tools can help boost breast cancer patients' moods, making them feel less depressed.... (Source: National Comprehensive Cancer Network)
Source: National Comprehensive Cancer Network - September 20, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news

“Platanias to Receive 2013 Milstein Award”, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University
Leonidas Platanias, MD, PhD, Deputy Director of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University, has been selected to receive the 2013 Seymour & Vivian Milstein Award for Excellence in Interferon and Cytokine Research. He will receive the prize on September 29 at the annual meeting of the International Cytokine and Interferon Society in San Francisco. Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University is one of the 23 NCCN Member Institutions.... (Source: National Comprehensive Cancer Network)
Source: National Comprehensive Cancer Network - September 13, 2013 Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news