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Clinical Practice Guidelines: Highlights:
American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)

American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
As the world's leading professional organization representing physicians who treat people with cancer, ASCO has developed 4 CRC guidelines.

Colorectal Cancer Surveillance: 2005 Update of an American Society of Clinical Oncology Practice Guideline, available at: http://www.jco.org/cgi/reprint/23/33/8512.pdf

2005 Update on ASCO Practice Guideline Recommendations for Colorectal Cancer Surveillance: Guideline Summary, available at:
http://www.asco.org/asco/downloads/CRC_G-line_Summary.pdf

American Society of Clinical Oncology Recommendations on Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Stage II Colon Cancer, available at: http://www.jco.org/cgi/content/full/22/16/3408

American Society of Clinical Oncology Recommendations for the Use of Tumor Markers in Gastrointestinal Cancer, 2006 Update, available full text at http://www.jco.org/cgi/reprint/JCO.2006.08.2644v1.pdf  A summary of the recommendations can be downloaded from the November 2006 issue of Journal of Oncology Practice at http://jop.stateaffiliates-asco.org/November06Issue/314.pdf.pdf
National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN)

National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN)

NCCN has updated the clinical guidelines for the management of colon(V.1.2010), rectal( V.1.2010) and anal(V.1.2010) cancers.

Colon cancer guidelines can be accessed at http://www.nccn.org/professionals/physician_gls/PDF/colon.pdf

Rectal cancer guidelines can be accessed at http://www.nccn.org/professionals/physician_gls/PDF/rectal.pdf

Anal cancer guidelines can be accessed at http://www.nccn.org/professionals/physician_gls/PDF/anal.pdf

Page 4 of each updated set of guidelines contains a summary of changes for the new version.
ASCO-ONS Chemotherapy Safety Standards
The Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) have collaborated to develop the first national standards for the safe administration of chemotherapy drugs, focused on the adult population in the ambulatory setting. The Standards are available here: http://onsopcontent.ons.org/lmASCOONSguidelines.pdf  The Standards will also be printed in the November issue of the Oncology Nursing Forum and a future issue of the Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing.
Tools:
Patient CRC Classroom

Please feel free to download, print and distribute these patient guides on CRC, cancer treatment and symptom management to your patients
ONS PEP Quick Reference Tools

The Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) Putting Evidence Into Practice® (PEP) resources identify and categorize evidence for nurse-sensitive interventions. Effective January 2010, 1-page downloadable quick reference guides to each of the 16 PEP content areas are available for free download from the ONS Web site. To access the Quick Guides, link to http://ons.org/Research/PEP/Topics, choose a PEP® topic from the list in the left column and then click on the link to the Quick View Resource.

7th Edition AJCC Cancer Staging Manual

The American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) released the 7th Edition of the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual in October 2009; use of the new staging criteria went into effect on January 1, 2010. Further information on the 7th Edition, including links to order the new manual, is available on the AJCC Web site at http://www.cancerstaging.org/

A compendium of teaching media to familiarize clinicians with cancer staging in general, and the 7th Edition changes in particular, is available through the AJCC Web site at http://www.cancerstaging.org/staging/index.html
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