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Implementation of the new American Cancer Society process for creating cancer screening guidelines
Author(s) -
Byers Tim
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
cancer cytopathology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.29
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1934-6638
pISSN - 1934-662X
DOI - 10.1002/cncy.21198
Subject(s) - medicine , guideline , cancer , cancer screening , pathology
The American Cancer Society recently revised the methods it will use to develop cancer screening guidelines. This commentary provides a summary of those new methods, and commentary on the roles of laboratory‐based specialists and cytologists in future screening guideline development.