Dino Prato argues that oncology guidelines like NCCN are written for groups, not individual patients. Following them blindly can miss what works for a specific person's biology and limit personalized cancer care.
Most board certified oncologists in the United States follow the NCCN guidelines on paper. That sounds great. They give your doctor a clear map, a way to show insurance companies what they're doing and get it billed and covered. That's great. That's a standard of care. But there are some big limitations you rarely hear about. And the number one limitation is the guidelines are written for groups, not for you. They're built around the one size fits all average patient population health. When your oncologist is just following the NCCNN guidelines, understand what that means? The they're applying a committee group protocol to your individual biology. That's why we see so many people, unfortunately, die with cancer, because they're not getting the individual care their unique biology deserves.
