NCCN Harmonized Guidelines™

NCCN Guidelines are used by clinicians around the world as a standard resource for clinical decision-making. The NCCN Harmonized Guidelines are targeted regional resources created as part of a collaborative effort to combat the skyrocketing cancer rates and unique circumstances of cancer care. They represent both the optimal care that resource-constrained areas aspire to provide and pragmatic approaches that could be used to improve the availability of effective treatment options.

Using the Harmonized Guidelines

Recommendations within the NCCN Harmonized Guidelines are represented as follows:

  • Black Text: Generally available standard of care
  • Gray Text: Highly advanced/optimal care that may be costly, technically challenging, and/or have a lesser impact on oncologic outcome
  • Italicized Blue Text: Regional options that may be considered when availability precludes general standard of care
  • Gray Text with Strikethrough: Indicates care options that are not feasible or available at this time

View available Harmonized Guidelines below or download the Virtual Library of NCCN Guidelines® App for your mobile device.

NCCN Harmonized Guidelines™ for Sub-Saharan Africa

As part of a joint project with the African Cancer Coalition (ACC), American Cancer Society (ACS), the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), and IBM, NCCN and members of ACC adapted the NCCN Guidelines® and NCCN Framework for Resource Stratification of NCCN Guidelines (NCCN Framework) to create the NCCN Harmonized Guidelines for Sub-Saharan Africa.

NCCN Harmonized Guidelines™ (Sub-Saharan Africa) - Guidelines for Treatment of Cancer by Type

NCCN Harmonized Guidelines™ (Sub-Saharan Africa) - Guidelines for Detection, Prevention, & Risk Reduction

NCCN Harmonized Guidelines™ (Sub-Saharan Africa) - Guidelines for Supportive Care

NCCN Harmonized Guidelines™ (Sub-Saharan Africa) - Guidelines for Specific Populations

NCCN Harmonized Guidelines™ for Vietnam

The Vietnam harmonization process is supported by a collaboration with the Vietnam National Cancer Hospital (“K Hospital”)

NCCN Harmonized Guidelines™ (Vietnam) - Guidelines for Treatment of Cancer by Type

For more information about NCCN collaborations to create the NCCN Harmonized Guidelines™, visit NCCN.org/news.

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