The golden rules

[Joan M]

Here's a link to the National Comprehensive Cancer Network guidelines for treating breast cancer, which can give us an idea why some oncs in the United States refuse to give certain treatments and insurance companies sometimes refuse to pay for them:

www.nccn.org/professionals/physician_gls/pdf/breast.pdf

I hope the link works.

Notice how oncs from the comprehensive cancer centers participate in setting the standards, which may be why their facilities often refuse to give particular treatments that other survivors have received, since they set the standards.

The table of contents is pretty logical.

Joan

[Jackie07]

Thanks.

http://www.nccn.com/ is the link for consumers and does not require a login. I liked the '10 Resolutions for Cancer survivors' on the front page:

http://www.nccn.com/component/content/article/67-emotional/877-resolutions-for-cancer-survivors.html


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[Joan M]

Jackie,

Thanks very much!

Joan