Disease oriented, multidisciplinary expert panels of clinician scientists who practice medicine in the leading academic cancer centers in the United States develop the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines®). Many of them also have experience teaching and treating patients in middle- and low-resource areas. However, for most, this activity comprises a limited portion of their experience.
In developing the NCCN Framework™, NCCN realized that review by clinicians who regularly practice in lower resource settings is a critical component in creating NCCN Framework™ that are acceptable and useful in these settings. NCCN thanks those clinicians from around the world who have given their time and expertise to review the NCCN Framework™ and provide thoughtful input. The NCCN Framework Committee reviews the input from all international reviewers and update the NCCN Framework™ as appropriate.
NCCN extends its sincere gratitude to those clinicians from around the world who generously give their time and expertise to review the NCCN Framework™ and provide thoughtful input.
NCCN acknowledges the following experts:
Alfredo Aguilar, MD
Director for Academic & Scientific Affairs
Consultant Medical Oncologist
ONCOSALUD-AUNA
Lima, Perú
Gaurav Agarwal MS, DNB, PDC (Endocr. Surg.), Cert-RACS (Australia), FACS
President, Breast Surgery International
Department of Endocrine & Breast Surgery SGPGIMS
Lucknow, India
Hideyuki Akaza, MD
Strategic Investigation on Comprehensive Cancer Network
Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies/Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo
Tokyo, Japan
Olusegun I. Alatise, MB.ChB, MSc, FWACS, FMCS
Surgical Oncology/Gastroenterology Unit, Department of Surgery, College of Health Sciences
Obafemi Awolowo University/Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital
Complex
Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Zipporah Ali, MD, MPH, MPC, Dip. Pall. Care
Executive Director
Kenya Hospices and Palliative Care Association (KEHPCA)
Nairobi, Kenya
Karina Aliaga, MD
Unit of Basic and Translational Research on Cancer
Consultant Medical Oncologist
ONCOSALUD-AUNA
Lima, Perú
Maged El Ansary, MD
Prof. of Pain Medicine, Al Azhar University.
President and Editor in Chief ESRAPM
Former Council Member IASP
Council Member ARS
Council Member APCA
S. General AMUP
Cairo,
Egypt
Chandrakanth Are, MD
Department of Surgery and Surgical Oncology
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, Nebraska
Glauco Baiocchi, MD, PhD
Director, Department of Gynecologic Oncology
AC Camargo Cancer Center
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Professor Michael Barton, OAM
Research Director
Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research
Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia
Ali Bazarbachi, MD, PhD
Associate Dean for Basic Research
Professor of Medicine, Hematology and Oncology
Professor of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Physiological Sciences
Director, Bone Marrow Transplantation
Program
American University of Beirut, Medical Center
Beirut, Lebanon
Yazid Belkacemi, MD, PhD
Head of the Radiation Oncology Department
Head of the Henri Mondor Breast Center
APHP - University Hospital of Henri Mondor
Créteil, France
Alberto Briganti, MD, PhD
Professor of Urology, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Deputy Director of Urological Research Institute, Scientific Institute San Raffaele
Milan, Italy
Jordi Bruix, MD
Head, Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer
Hospital Clinic
University of Barcelona
IDIBAPS. CIBEREHD
Barcelona, Spain
Maria Elena Cabrera, MD
Hematology/Hematology Oncology
Hospital del Salvador
Titular Professor, Universidad de Chile
Santiago, Chile
Felipe A. Calvo, MD
Chairman, Department of Oncology General University Hospital Gregorio Marañon
Madrid, Spain
Luis A. Castillo, MD, MPH
Fundación Perez Scremini
C.H.Pereira Rossell
Montevideo, Uruguay
Alex Yuang-Chi Chang, MD
Professor of Oncology, John Hopkins University
Senior Consultant, Medical Oncology, John Hopkins Singapore
Jalan Tan Tock Seng, Singapore
Nathan I. Cherny, MD
Norman Levan Chair of Humanistic Medicine
Associate Professor of Medicine (BGU)
Director, Cancer Pain and Palliative Medicine Service
Department of Medical Oncology
Shaare
Zedek Medical Center
Jerusalem, Israel
Su-Pin Choo, MBBS, MRCP(UK), FAMS
Senior Consultant
Curie Oncology
Division of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Centre Singapore
Dilşen Çolak, MD
Medical Oncologist
Baskent University
Bahcelievler/Ankara, Turkey
Adina Croitoru MD, PhD
Titu Maiorescu University, Faculty of Medicine
Fundeni Clinical Institute
Bucharest, Romania
Professor Ian Davis, MB, BS (Hons), PhD, FRACP, FAChPM
Professor of Medicine, Monash University and Eastern Health
Head, Eastern Health Clinical School, Monash University Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health
Sciences
Medical oncologist, Eastern Health
Chair of ANZUP Cancer Trials Group
NHMRC Practitioner Fellow (APP1102604)
Box Hill, Victoria, Australia
Dr. Henry Ddungu
Consultant, Hematology/Oncology
Uganda Cancer Institute
Kampala, Uganda
Yanhong Deng, MD, PhD
Director, Department of Medical Oncology
The Sixth Affiliated Hospital, Gastrointestinal Hospital
Sun Yat-sen University
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Ruoxu Dou, MD, PhD
Attending Surgeon, Department of Colorectal Surgery
Sixth Affiliated Hospital
Sun Yat-sen University
Guangzhou, China
Eva Duarte, MD
Chief, Dept. of Symptom Control & Palliative Care, Instituto de Cancerogia (INCAN)
Director, UNIPALIA Sanatorio Nuestra Señora Del Pilar
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Hagar Elghazawy, MD, MSc, PhD
Consultant of Clinical Oncology, Breast cancer Unit
Ain Shams University
Cairo, Egypt
Former Observer at MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Shekinah Elmore, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Radiation Oncology
UNC School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Alexandru Eniu, MD, PhD
Hôpital Riviera-Chablais
Senior Medical Oncologist
Disease Leader Breast Cancer
Coordinator, Pole Oncology
Vaud-Valais, Switzerland
Andre Fay, MD, PhD
Chief, Medical Oncology Department - PUCRS/HSL
Visiting Scientist - Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Professor of Medicine - PUCRS School of Medicine
Porto Alegre, Brazil
Jayant S. Goda, MD, DNB, MRes
Professor and Clinician Scientist
Department of Radiation Oncology
Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India
Cynthia R. Goh, MD, PhD
National Cancer Centre Singapore
Duke-National University of Singapore Graduate Medical School
Singapore
Wojciech Golusinski, MD, PhD
Department of Head and Neck Surgery
Poznan University of Medical Sciences
The Greater Poland Cancer Centre
Poznań, Poland
Alfonso Dueñas González, MD, PhD
Unit of Biomedical Research on Cancer
Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas UNAM/Instituto Nacional de Cancerología
Mexico City, Mexico
Satish Gopal, MD, MPH
UNC Project-Malawi (Cancer Program Director, Assoc Scientific Director)
UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center (Assoc Prof Medicine)
UNC Institute for Global Health & Infectious
Diseases (Assoc Prof Medicine)
UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health (Adj Assoc Prof Epidemiology)
University of Malawi College of Medicine (Hon Sr Lecturer)
Malawi Cancer Consortium & Regional Center of Research
Excellence for NCDs (PI)
Surbhi Grover, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Department of Radiation Oncology
Director of Global Radiation Oncology
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
J. W. Awori Hayanga, MD, MPH, FACS
Assistant Professor in Cardiothoracic Surgery
Surgical Director, Lung Transplant Outcomes
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
David Hui, MD, MSc, FAAHPM
Associate Professor, Department of Palliative Care, Rehabilitation and Integrative Medicine
Division of Cancer Medicine
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston,
Texas
Abdul-Rahman Jazieh, MD, MPH
Chairman, Oncology Department
King Abdulaziz Medical City
Saudi Arabia
Anjum S Khan Joad, MD, DNB, MNAMS, GPC, Dip PallMed
Director
Department of Anaesthesia and Palliative Medicine
Bhagwan Mahaveer Cancer Hospital and Research Centre
Jaipur, India
Dr Makarand Khochikar, MS, DNB, FRCS, FEBU
Chief Uro-oncologist
Siddhi Vinayak Ganapati Cancer Hospital, Miraj (India)
President Elect - Urological Society of India - West Zone
Board of Directors SIU
India
Israel Kayode Kolawole, MBBS, DA, Dip. Pall Med, FWACS
Anesthetist and Palliative Care Provider
University Ilorin / University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital
Ilorin, Nigeria
Federico G. Antillón-Klussmann, MD
Medical Director, Unidad Nacional de Oncologia, Pediatrica;
Secretary, Universidad Francisco Marroquin, School of Medicine,
Guatemala
Luiz P. Kowalski, MD, PhD
Director, Head and Neck Surgery and Otorhinolaryngology Department at A C Camargo Cancer Center
São Paulo, Brazil
Irena Laska
Executive Director
Qendra E Kudesit Paliativ “Mary Potter” (Palliative Care Center)
Korce, Albania
Jorge León Ch, MD
Assistant Professor in Medical Oncology, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Senior Consultant/Chief of Gastrointestinal Oncology
ONCOSALUD-AUNA
Lima, Perú
Ming Liu, MD
Director
Professor
Department of Urology
Beijing Hospital
Beijing, China
Emmanuel B.K. Luyirika, MFamMed, MPA, BPA, MBChB
Executive Director
African Palliative Care Association
Kampala, Uganda
Hari Menon, MD, DM
Senior Consultant Haemato-Oncology
Cytecare Cancer Hospitals
Bangalore, India
Sherif F. Naguib MBBCH, MS, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgical Oncology
Head of Breast Surgery Department
NCI, Cairo University
Cairo, Egypt
Dimitry Nosov, MD, PhD
Head of Oncology Department
Central Clinical Hospital
Moscow, Russian Federation
Astrid Pavlovsky, MD
FUNDALEU
Department of Hematology
Centro de Hematología Pavlovsky
Medical Director
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Joseph Pinto, MsC
Unit of Basic and Translational Research on Cancer
ONCOSALUD-AUNA
Lima, Perú
Ilya Pokataev, MD
Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Chemotherapy
Russian Cancer Research Center, Moscow
Chairman, Pancreatic Cancer Guidelines Working Group
The Russian Society of Clinical Oncology
(RUSSCO)
Alfredo QY Pontejos, Jr, MD
Professor & Chair
Dept of Otorhinolaryngology
University of the Philippines
Philippine General Hospital
Manila, Philippines
Ray R. Price, MD
Clinical Professor of Surgery
Utah School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, UT
George Pupwe, MBchB, Mmed, FC Rad Onc
Consultant Clinical Oncologist
Cancer Diseases Hospital, Zambia
Danny Rabah, MB, BS, FRCSC, FACS
Professor and Consultant Urologist
Chairman Department of Surgery
Director Cancer Research Chair
King Khalid University Hospital (KKUH), King Saud University
Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia
Professor José María Ribera, MD, PhD
Director of the Stem Cell Transplantation Unit, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol (HUGTP)
Head of the Clinical Hematology Department and Director of
the Stem Cell Transplantation Unit, Catalan Institute of Oncology (ICO), HUGTP
Associate Professor of Medicine, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)
Barcelona, Spain
Morgan Roupret, MD, PhD
Professeur
Sorbonne Université, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière
Paris, France
Fidel Rubagumya, MD
Resident Physician, Clinical Oncology
Ocean Road Cancer Institute/Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Francesco Sanguedolce, MD, PhD, FEBU
Fundació Puigvert, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (ES)
Associate Professor of Urology at Universitá degli Studi di Sassari (IT)
Isac I. Schnirer, MD, MHA
Chief Medical Oncologist
ProMed Cancer Centers
Shanghai, China
Luis J. Schwarz, MD
Unit of Basic and Translational Research on Cancer
Consultant Medical Oncologist
ONCOSALUD-AUNA
Lima, Perú
Mariana Serrano C, MD
Unit of Basic and Translational Research on Cancer
Consultant Medical Oncologist
ONCOSALUD-AUNA
Lima, Perú
Ju-Fang Shi, PhD
National Cancer Center/Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College
Beijing 100021
China
Shailesh V. Shrikhande, MS, MD, FRCS (Hon)
Head, Division of Cancer Surgery
Chief, Gastrointestinal and Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Service
Professor of Surgical Oncology
Deputy Director, Tata Memorial
Hospital
Mumbai, India
Navneet Singh MD, DM, FRCP (London)
Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research (PGIMER)
Sector 12, Chandigarh, India
Bhawna Sirohi, MBBS, FRCP
Consultant Medical Oncologist
Mount Vernon Cancer Centre
Northwood, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Indian Affiliation:
Previously Consultant Medical Oncologist,
Tata Memorial
Centre
Mumbai, India
Coenraad Slabber, MD
Mary Potter Oncology Centre
Pretoria, South Africa
Martin Smith, MBBCh
Assistant Head of School of Clinical Medicine
Academic Head of the Department of Surgery
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Tianqiang Song, PhD, MD
Department of Hepatobiliary Tumor
Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital
Tianjin, China
Cezary Szczylik, MD, PhD
Department of Oncology
Postgraduate Educational Center
European Health Center Otwock
Otwock, Poland
Rainy Umbas, MD, PhD
Chairman of the Board of Professors
Faculty of Medicine University of Indonesia
Faculty Staff
Department of Urology
Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital Jakarta
Vincenzo Valentini, MD
Chairman Radiation Oncology Department - Gemelli-ART
Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Rome, Italy
Carlos Vallejos, MD, PhD
Professor of Oncology, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Director, Department of Medical Oncology
ONCOSALUD-AUNA
Lima, Perú
*Professor Ajay Vora, MBBS, MD, FRCPath, FRCPCH
Consultant in Paediatric Haematology and Professor of Paediatric Haematology
Great Ormond Street Hospital
London
WC1N3JH
*Provided input for the
pediatric/AYA sections of Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Luhua Wang, MD
Professor of Radiation Oncology
Vice President of Cancer Hospital &
Institute Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences &
Peking Union Medical College
Beijing, China
Xiaohua Wu, MD, PhD
Professor & Chairman
Department of Gynecologic Oncology
Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Center
Shanghai, China
Allen EJ Yeoh, MD
Viva-Goh Foundation Associate Professor in Paediatric Oncology, Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore
Khoo Teck Puat
- National University Children's Medical Institute, National University Health System
Singapore
Zhenyu Yin, MD, PhD
Director/Geriatric Oncology Department
Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital
The Affiliated Hospital of Nanjng University Medical School
Nanjing, China
Ashraf Zaghloul, MD, PhD, FACS
Professor Of Surgical Oncology
NCI, Cairo University
President Of EGSSO