These NCCN Guidelines Insights summarize several key updates to the NCCN Guidelines for Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) and discuss the clinical evidence that support the recommendations.

This case report describes the rare occurrence of a T790M resistance mutation found in a central nervous system (CNS) parenchymal metastasis. A concomitant squamous histology transformation in a lung non–T790M-resistant metastasis is also described.

Approximately half of all patients with glioblastoma are older than 65 years and nearly one-quarter are older than 70 years, with a rising incidence of this disease in the elderly population.

These NCCN Guidelines Insights focuses on nutrition and supportive care for patients with head and neck cancers. This topic was a recent addition to the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines) for Head and Neck Cancers.

Prostate cancer is the most common noncutaneous cancer among men. This case report describes a 43-year-old man with rapidly progressing castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) that failed to respond to docetaxel and cabazitaxel.

Although frontline treatment of advanced Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) produces high cure rates, disease either will not respond to or will relapse after initial therapy in approximately a quarter of patients.

Bone health and maintenance of bone integrity are important components of comprehensive cancer care.

These NCCN Guidelines Insights highlight the important updates specific to the management of HER2-postive metastatic breast cancer in the 2013 version of the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology for Breast Cancer.

Many effective therapeutic options are available for patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). Imatinib, a first-generation tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI), is one of several options for patients who present with CML, whether in chronic phase, accelerated phase, or blast crisis.

The myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) consist of a heterogeneous spectrum of myeloid clonal hemopathies. The Revised International Prognostic Scoring System (IPSS-R) provides a recently refined method for clinically evaluating the prognosis of patients with MDS.

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