It is a non-profit organization with offices in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania.
John W. Sweetenham, MD, FRCP, FACP, FASCO, from UT Southwestern Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, is chairman of the NCCN Board of Directors.
[2] It publishes a peer-reviewed medical journal called Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network.
[3] The first edition of the Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network was published in 2003.
[3] Experts from the 33 NCCN Member Institutions are recognized for dealing with complex, aggressive, or rare cancers.