NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE CANCER NETWORK (NCCN)
Provisions for the future medical care of industrial cancers can be complex and contentious, particularly reflected in the potential life threatening aspect of a new cancer diagnosis. For this reason, a respected peer reviewed national standard of cancer treatment is a valuable resource for treating physicians, medical evaluators, attorneys, applicants, insurance adjustors and judges.
Such an oncology resource is essential for evaluating what aspects of present and future cancer care for a given applicant are considered standard of care options and what treatments may be non-standard and/or experimental. This issue comes up most frequently for public safety officers whose cancers are considered industrial by the medical legal application of California Labor Code Section 3212.1, the "cancer presumption for police officers and firefighters".
Interested parties are referred to the web portal,
www.nccn.com , maintained by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), a not-for-profit allliance of 21 of the world's leading cancer centers. This website also contains many valuable patient resources.
The NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology ("NCCN Guidelines"), using best available medical evidence, are developed by 44 panels of expert cancer clinicians and researchers. These Guidelines are frequently updated to reflect the latest standards of care for the diagnosis and treatment of a multiplicity of specific cancers.
Access to the NCCN Guidelines is free but requires initial registratiion and then log in at the NCCN Guidelines website:
http://www.nccn.org/professionals/physician_gls/f_guidelines.asp All material contained in the NCCN Guidelines is copyrighted and always requires specific written permission from the NCCN to be reproduced. Such reproduction is generally authorized for inclusion in a medical legal report that describes future medical care for an industrial cancer.