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Wui-Jin Koh, MD, on Making NCCN Guidelines Relevant Around the Globe

2015 NCCN Annual Conference

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Wui-Jin Koh, MD, of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, discusses the program to adapt NCCN guidelines to regions of the world with different resource availability. The first guideline to be adapted in this way is for cervical cancer, which is prevalent in the developing world.



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