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1. Consensus for Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancers (in Chinese)

Besides actively pushing the clinical research, every committee of TCOG also tries to set up the consensus of cancer therapy guidelines. By series of meetings and discussion, the committee established the guideline for cancer diagnosis, operation method, staging, the indication of radiotherapy and chemotherapy as well as the screening and prevention. These guidelines will offer patients and their family a correct direction, and clinicians a reference of standard cancer management as well. Presently, NHRI has published the cancer therapy guidelines (in Chinese) as following:

• Therapy Guideline of Cervical Cancer (published on Jan. 1998, revised on Oct. 2000) Therapy Guideline of
• Breast Cancer (published on Jan. 1998, revised on Oct. 2004)
• Therapy Guideline of Oral Cavity Cancer (published on Mar. 1998)
• Therapy Guideline of Lung Cancer (published on Aug. 1998)
• Therapy Guideline of Colorectal Cancer (published on Oct. 1998)
• Therapy Guideline of Gastric Cancer (published on Jun. 1999)
• Therapy Guideline of Prostate Cancer (published on Nov. 1999, revised on Jan. 2003)
• Therapy Guideline of Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma (published on Aug. 2000)
• Therapy Guideline of Radiotherapy (published on Jan. 2003)
• Therapy Guideline of Brain Tumor (published on Oct. 2004)
• Patients Education for Clinical Trials(published on Apr. 2005)

2. Cancer Practice Guideline (in Chinese)

• TCOG also set up practice guidelines of Taiwan's major cancers for Lung Cancer, Gynecologic Cancers, Pancreatic Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Breast Cancer, Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma, Gastric Cancer and Colorectal Cancer, and this will serve as important reference for physicians taking care of cancer patients.
• Practice Guideline of Lung Cancer (published in April 2004)
• Practice Guideline of Gynaecologic Oncology (published in July 2004, revised in August 2007)

3. Taiwan Cooperative Oncology Group News (Published since Nov. 1992)(in Chinese)

• TCOG has issued "Taiwan Cooperative Oncology Group News" since November 1992. The publisher was transferred from the Institute of Biomedical Science, Academia Sinica, to National Health Research Institutes in January 1998. TCOG News also publishes special issues, such as the monograph of "MALToma in Taiwan" and "Lymphoma in Taiwan" (in Chinese) which collected and summarized the clinical experiences of physicians from various hospitals witnessed the progress of domestic medicine. We convey the following messages to the cancer research communities:
  • (1) updates of the TCOG's ongoing clinical trials,
  • (2) activities of each committee,
  • (3) medical news and views.
  It is not just circulated among disease committee members and physicians but also gaining popularity among hospital workers and other health professionals.