Middle East - North Africa National Comprehensive Cancer Network (MENA-NCCN) MENA Regional Center for NCCN
Collaboration
Welcome to the website of for the Middle East - North Africa National Comprehensive Cancer Network (MENA-NCCN) MENA
Regional Center for NCCN Collaboration.
This Center was developed to enhance communication and facilitate dissemination of
cancer-related information including modification of NCCN Guidelines to colleagues in the MENA region.
We appreciate your constructive feedback as we grow and develop this service.
Again, thank you for visiting our website. We hope you will find the visit informative
and rewarding.
Sincerely,
Dr. Kanan Alshammari
Director, MENA-NCCN Coordinating Center
King Abdulaziz Medical City
Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs
The MENA-NCCN Initiative
The NCCN Guidelines have an effect worldwide, and more and more groups in different parts of the world are looking
to adapt them.
Since then, the NCCN has started outreach programs to share its vast knowledge and
resources with interested groups. Regional rules have come out of these efforts in China, Japan, Korea, Latin
America, and most recently, the MENA regionwww.nccn.org)
The Middle East and North African countries stretching from Morocco in the west to India
in the east and from Turkey to Yemen in the south (North-South).
Oncology experts and people with a lot of influence formed seven committees: Breast
Cancer, Lung Cancer, Colon Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Hepatobiliary Cancer, Lymphomas, and Palliative Care. The
committees looked at the NCCN Guidelines to see if they needed to be changed to make them more useful in the MENA
region.
Based on scientific evidence and regional experience, each committee came up with a list of changes that needed to
be made to the NCCN Guidelines. These changes to the guidelines were talked about with NCCN experts in the US and
then summed up in a full manuscript for each area. Making the MENA-NCCN Guidelines sparked a lot of interest in the
region to create more evidence-based practices and network and work together more.
Goals of MENA-NCCN Initiative:
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To help regional Oncology health care professionals develop an evidence-based practice through the adaptation of
NCCN Guidelines.
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To help build regional capacity in the evidence based medicine.
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To encourage collaborative activities among oncology health care professionals to disseminate knowledge and
exchange expertise.
MENA-NCCN Open Participation
MMENA NCCN open registration allows you to participate in the process of “ adapt
evidence-based treatment in the region “ and to be submitted on the upcoming guideline publication.
The Medial East and North Africa (MENA NCCN) open registration allows you to participate
in the process of adaption the NCCN guidelines to our region and allows the Committee to identify and discuss the
contribution that you submit, if your inputs are accepted by the committee you will be acknowledged as a contributor
to the published adaptation.
User Instructions:
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Register in MENA NCCN[Registration Form]
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Choose the guideline to modify [ registration required on www.nccn.org]
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Please fill in this Excel sheet MENA-NCCN Guidelines Modifications Template with the suggesting modification and supporting evidence.
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Please email us the suggested modification on
mena_nccn@ngha.med.sa and we will be happy to get back to you.
