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The report “Ensuring Quality Cancer Care,” Maria Hewitt and Joseph V. Simone, Editors, National Cancer Policy Board, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council, 256 pages, 1999, can be found at http://www.nap.edu/catalog/6467.html.

The report “Enhancing Data Systems to Improve the Quality of Cancer Care,” Maria Hewitt and Joseph V. Simone, Editors, National Cancer Policy Board, National Research Council, 176 pages, 2000, can be found at http://books.nap.edu/catalog/9970.html.

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network’s patient guidelines on breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer can be found at http://www.nccn.org/.

A description of the CanCORS program can be found at http://www-dccps.ims.nci.nih.gov/ARP/cancors.html. The section of NCI’s proposed FY2002 budget dealing with quality of care can be found at http://plan2002.cancer.gov/infquality.htm.

A news release describing ASCO’s NICCQ initiative can be found at http://www.asco.org/people/nr/html/genpr/m_0100qualitypr.htm, and additional details can be found at http://www.asco.org/prof/pp/html/m_niccq-qa.htm.