NCCN Guidelines ® Insights Colon Cancer, Version 2.2018 Featured Updates to the NCCN Guidelines

Al B. Benson, Alan P. Venook, Mahmoud M. Al-Hawary, Lynette Cederquist, Yi Jen Chen, Kristen K. Ciombor, Stacey Cohen, Harry S. Cooper, Dustin Deming, Paul F. Engstrom, Ignacio Garrido-Laguna, Jean L. Grem, Axel Grothey, Howard S. Hochster, Sarah Hoffe, Steven Hunt, Ahmed Kamel, Natalie Kirilcuk, Smitha Krishnamurthi, Wells A. MessersmithJeffrey Meyerhardt, Eric D. Miller, Mary F. Mulcahy, James D. Murphy, Steven Nurkin, Leonard Saltz, Sunil Sharma, David Shibata, John M. Skibber, Constantinos T. Sofocleous, Elena M. Stoffel, Eden Stotsky-Himelfarb, Christopher G. Willett, Evan Wuthrick, Kristina M. Gregory, Deborah A. Freedman-Cass

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Abstract

The NCCN Guidelines for Colon Cancer provide recommendations regarding diagnosis, pathologic staging, surgical management, perioperative treatment, surveillance, management of recurrent and metastatic disease, and survivorship. These NCCN Guidelines Insights summarize the NCCN Colon Cancer Panel discussions for the 2018 update of the guidelines regarding risk stratification and adjuvant treatment for patients with stage III colon cancer, and treatment of BRAF V600E mutation-positive metastatic colorectal cancer with regimens containing vemurafenib.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)359-369
Number of pages11
JournalJournal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : JNCCN
Volume16
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 1 2018

Keywords

  • Colonic Neoplasms/diagnosis
  • Humans

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