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Editorial| Volume 51, ISSUE 10, P1364-1365, October 2019

Why do guidelines supersede the conference consensus?

New French recommendations for metastatic colorectal cancer management
Published:September 16, 2019DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dld.2019.08.021
      For 20 years, all French academic cooperative groups of physicians involved in fighting digestive cancers have designed and shared recommendations, which are widely diffused in francophone countries and contribute to a high level of care. The French National guidelines are available free online in French (www.tncd.org), however they were recently published in part in English [
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      Metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC): French intergroup clinical practice guidelines for diagnosis, treatments and follow-up (SNFGE, FFCD, GERCOR, UNICANCER, SFCD, SFED, SFRO, SFR).
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      Pancreatic cancer: French clinical practice guidelines for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up (SNFGE, FFCD, GERCOR, UNICANCER, SFCD, SFED, SFRO, ACHBT, AFC).
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      Gastrointestinal lymphomas: French intergroup clinical practice recommendations for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up (SNFGE, FFCD, GERCOR, UNICANCER, SFCD, SFED, SFRO, SFH).
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      Small bowel adenocarcinoma: French intergroup clinical practice guidelines for diagnosis, treatments and follow-up (SNFGE, FFCD, GERCOR, UNICANCER, SFCD, SFED, SFRO).
      ] and are regularly updated. They are the result of a consensus between gastroenterologists, oncologists, surgeons, radiologists, radiotherapists, pharmacists, nuclear medicine specialists and pathologists.
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