NCCN Guidelines® Insights: Small Cell Lung Cancer, Version 2.2026
The NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines) for Small Cell Lung Cancer provide recommendations for diagnostic workup, staging, and treatment. These NCCN Guidelines Insights highlight recent updates, with a particular focus on changes to systemic therapies and radiation treatment in the NCCN Guidelines for Small Cell Lung Cancer.
Authors
- Misty Dawn Shields (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7904-5062)
- Carly J. Cassara
- J.C. Grecula (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1817-063X)
- Charles Florsheim
- Claire K. Mulvey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7880-8507)
- Jonathan Wade Goldman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4925-8243)
- Julian R. Molina (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9962-4635)
- Kathryn A. Gold (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5165-4424)
- Christine M. Bestvina (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7189-1590)
- Christopher D’Avella (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2276-0257)
- Jyoti Malhotra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8586-0234)
- R. Lee
- Swathi Ramakrishnan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8352-4704)
- Evan C. Osmundson
- C Solis Moran
- Jacob M. Sands (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4663-7464)
- Nisha Mohindra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5913-1716)
- Shahed N. Badiyan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6243-526X)
- S. B. Patel
- Maya Khalil
- Tina D. Tailor (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2727-4741)
- Elaine Shum (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0390-5716)
- B. Loo
- Saraswati Pokhare
- Christine Hann
- Anne Chiang
- Tejas Patil (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4389-1010)
- S. Puri
- Martin Edelman
- Afshin Dowlati
- Apar Kishor P. Ganti
- Megan Daly
- Angel Qin
- Noura Choudhury
- Michael Bassetti
- Robert E. Merritt
Institutions
- Fox Chase Cancer Center (US)
- Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center (US)
- Barnes-Jewish Hospital (US)
- City Of Hope National Medical Center (US)
- Cleveland Clinic (US)
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (US)
- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (US)
- Breast Cancer Research Foundation (US)
- University of Utah (US)
- The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (US)
- UC San Diego Health System (US)
- Huntsman Cancer Institute (US)
- Cancer Institute (WIA) (IN)
- Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation (US)
- WinnMed (US)
- Yale Cancer Center (US)
- Moffitt Cancer Center (US)
- Southwestern Medical Center (US)
- Jewish Hospital (US)
- University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center (US)
- Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center (US)
- University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center (US)
- Duke Medical Center (US)
- University of Colorado Cancer Center (US)
- Patient Advocate Foundation (US)
- Dana-Farber Brigham Cancer Center (US)
- Smilow Cancer Hospital (US)
- UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (US)
- Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University
- Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Moores Cancer Center
- University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center
- UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
- Stanford Cancer Institute
- Duke Cancer Institute
- Fred and Pamela Buffett Cancer Center
- UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center
- O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center
- National Comprehensive Cancer Network
- Indiana University (US)
- University of Pennsylvania (US)
- University of California, Davis (US)
- The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (US)
- University of Colorado Denver (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network
- Published
- 2026-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.6004/jnccn.2026.0002
- Primary Topic
- Lung Cancer Research Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00