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Every organization involved in health information and services needs its own health literacy plan. It is essential that the steps to developing an organizational plan are coordinated and strategic to improve health literacy. The National Action Plan to Improve Health Literacy is a helpful framework and model to change organizational and professional practices.

Anal cancer prevention approaches include reducing anal human papillomavirus (HPV) infection and transmission, and vaccination against HPV. Get detailed information about risk factors and prevention approaches in this summary for clinicians.

Genetics of Kidney Cancer (Renal Cell) includes the hereditary cancer syndromes von Hippel-Lindau disease, hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell cancer, Birt-Hogg-Dubé syndrome, and hereditary papillary renal carcinoma. Get comprehensive information on these syndromes in this clinician summary.

High-dose vitamin C, with and without conventional cancer therapies, appeared promising in early studies and was well tolerated. However, these studies have several limitations due to lack of rigor in trial design. Get detailed information about high-dose vitamin C in cancer in this clinician summary.

Childhood hematopoietic cell transplantation involves the infusion of blood stem cells into a patient to reconstitute the blood system. Get detailed information about autologous and allogeneic transplant, HLA matching, preparative regimens, and complications in this summary for clinicians.

Nutrition methods and dietary supplements have been studied for prostate cancer prevention or treatment. Read about the history of research, laboratory, and human studies on various prostate supplements, such as calcium, green tea, lycopene, pomegranate, selenium, soy, and vitamin E in this expert-reviewed summary.

Treatment for children with central nervous system germ cell tumors (GCT) depend upon the specific tumor type. Options include radiation therapy, chemotherapy, surgery (in various combinations) and stem cell rescue. Get detailed information about GCTs in this clinician summary.

Cannabis has been used medicinally for millennia, but has not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat any medical condition. Cannabinoids are the components in cannabis; some are commercially available to treat symptoms. Get detailed information in this clinician summary.

Gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) treatment depends on the extent of disease and may involve surgery and/or tyrosine kinase inhibitors. Get detailed information about the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of newly diagnosed and recurrent GIST in this summary for clinicians.

Levels of Evidence for Cancer Genetics Studies addresses the process and challenges of developing evidence-based summaries. Get information about how to weigh the strength of the evidence from cancer genetics studies in this summary for clinicians.