Examining Evidence Underlying the NCCN Guidelines for Hematologic Malignancies

This week, CancerNetwork review an article published in the July issue of the journal ONCOLOGY titled, “Level of Scientific Evidence Underlying the National Comprehensive Cancer Network Clinical Practice Guidelines for Hematologic Malignancies.” CancerNetwork spoke with Thejaswi Poonacha, MD, MBA, a staff physician and hospitalist in the department of internal medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, regarding the research from him and his colleagues.

The conversation focused on the scientific evidence behind the NCCN guidelines for hematologic malignancies, how each category corresponds with different levels of evidence, and the main findings from this study. Poonacha shared exactly what this means, and why this research was so significant for this group of authors.

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