NCCN Commemorates World Cancer Day with New Commitment to Update Patient Resources

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network pledges to update robust information resources for cancer patients and caregivers on an annual basis in both English and Spanish.

PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., Feb. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Comprehensive Cancer Network^® (NCCN^®)—an alliance of leading cancer centers based in the United States—and the NCCN Foundation^® is honoring World Cancer Day with an announcement about more frequent updates to its free educational resources intended to empower shared decision-making.

World Cancer Day is an international day observed every February 4^th to raise awareness about cancer, encourage its prevention, and mobilize action. The day is led by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)—of which NCCN is a member. This is the second year of the "United by Unique" campaign to place people at the center of care and their stories at the heart of the conversation.

"We are so happy to be announcing, on World Cancer Day, that all of our comprehensive patient information books will now be updated once a year, and be made available in English and Spanish," said Crystal S. Denlinger, MD, Chief Executive Officer, NCCN. "At NCCN, we recognize that every person is unique in their experience with cancer and their individual circumstances, hopes, needs, and priorities. At the same time, we all stand united in our need for factual, trustworthy information to guide us towards our best possible outcome."

Dr. Denlinger continued: "The NCCN Guidelines for Patients are based on the essential, evidence-based, expert consensus-driven guidelines that providers rely on all over the world to stay current on the very latest in cancer care. These award-winning resources present all of the treatment options in plain language, with pictures, a glossary, and suggested questions to ask, so patients and caregivers can make informed choices that are best for them in collaboration with their health care team."

The library of NCCN Guidelines for Patients^® includes more than 70 different guidebooks covering cancer prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, and supportive care for nearly every type of cancer. Each book contains vetted information explaining every step of the care journey from diagnosis through survivorship in language that is easy to understand.

All NCCN Guidelines for Patients^® are available for free download online at NCCN.org/patients or by app thanks to funding from the NCCN Foundation^®.

The NCCN Guidelines for Patients contain the same information as the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines^®) used by clinicians daily, which have been independently found to be associated with better outcomes, longer survival, and lower costs. The patient guidelines help everyone get on the same page, ensuring all are aware of any treatment choices available, enabling patients to advocate for their own best care. In 2025, the patient guidelines were utilized by more than 2.1 million people and downloaded more than 2.6 million times.

For 2026, NCCN is accelerating the publication schedule to make sure every book is updated annually to keep up with the changing field of cancer care, with 100% available in more than one language. As of World Cancer Day, 81% of the books are available in both English and Spanish, with another 11 languages represented across various topics.

"If knowledge is power, we want to put that power in the hands of every person who needs it—whether they have been diagnosed with cancer themselves, have a friend, colleague, or loved one who's been diagnosed, or are just looking for more information on prevention and screening before cancer symptoms occur," said Patrick Delaney, Executive Director of the NCCN Foundation. "We are also happy to work with employers as well as faith-based and community leaders to help them provide comfort and support to anyone in their network who may be dealing with this difficult disease."

Visit NCCN.org/patients to learn about and access all of the free resources available, and click NCCN.org/foundation for more on how to support endeavors that help all people to live better lives though quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention.

About the National Comprehensive Cancer Network
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network^® (NCCN^®) is a not-for-profit alliance of leading cancer centers devoted to patient care, research, and education. NCCN is dedicated to defining and advancing quality, effective, equitable, and accessible cancer care and prevention so all people can live better lives. The NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology (NCCN Guidelines^®) provide transparent, evidence-based, expert consensus-driven recommendations for cancer treatment, prevention, and supportive services; they are the recognized standard for clinical direction and policy in cancer management and the most thorough and frequently-updated clinical practice guidelines available in any area of medicine. The NCCN Guidelines for Patients^® provide expert cancer treatment information to inform and empower patients and caregivers, through support from the NCCN Foundation^®. NCCN also advances continuing education, global initiatives, policy, and research collaboration and publication in oncology. Visit NCCN.org for more information.

About the NCCN Foundation
The NCCN Foundation empowers people with cancer and their caregivers by delivering unbiased expert guidance from the world's leading cancer experts through the library of NCCN Guidelines for Patients^® and other patient education resources. The NCCN Foundation is also committed to advancing cancer treatment by funding the nation's promising young investigators at the forefront of cancer research. For more information about the NCCN Foundation, visit nccnfoundation.org.

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NCCN Commemorates World Cancer Day with New Commitment to Update Patient Resources

NCCN Commemorates World Cancer Day with New Commitment to Update Patient Resources

SINGAPORE, Feb. 4, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- On February 4, Skywork launched Skywork Desktop, bringing the full Skywork experience to desktop users worldwide.

Skywork Desktop Edition executes tasks directly on local machines, eliminating the need to upload files to the cloud. It can directly read massive amounts of files on computers, summarize and organize them, and generate new outputs based on the content. Furthermore, it focuses on "content understanding" rather than "file format": whether it's images, videos, spreadsheets, PPTs, or various document files, they can all be understood, categorized, and tasked with under a unified semantic layer, and it supports multi-tasking in parallel.

Skywork Desktop is designed to push the limits of AI productivity and usher in the next era of AI Agents.

In May 2025, Skywork launched Skywork Super Agents (the web version of Skywork), an "AI-powered Office" for the world, which greatly improved the work efficiency of nearly 100 million users.

The official launch of Skywork desktop version now pushes AI productivity to the next level, enabling AI agents to proactively understand users' intentions and respond to their work needs, rather than just passively waiting for instructions.

Skywork Desktop aims to reach and integrate into the last mile of desktop computing, becoming an OS assistant for everyone's work.

More importantly, Skywork is released to global users and is compatible with Windows systems and international office environments, aiming to enable domestically developed technologies to run in the world's most advanced office scenarios and penetrate into the last mile of everyone's work.

Beyond local execution, Skywork Desktop aims to create more powerful, advanced desktop AI.

Currently, Skywork Desktop aims to provide a more intelligent and powerful advanced desktop AI. Compared to the current product, Skywork Desktop offers the following key features:

1.  Native Windows coverage, a desktop AI that better understands Windows users.

To meet the needs of a large number of Windows users and work scenarios, Skywork Desktop prioritizes support for Windows systems. It can directly handle local historical files and complex project scenarios without migration or adaptation, making it a perfect fit for real office environments.

2.  Supports Claude and Gemini models, giving users "freedom to choose their model".

Skywork desktop version supports not only Claude models but also Gemini models. To fully leverage Gemini's advantages in full-modal understanding and generation, users can choose between Claude Opus 4.5, Claude Sonnet 4.5, and Gemini 3 Pro models, or enable..."auto" mode. The system automatically selects the most suitable model for each task, improving both efficiency and accuracy.

3.  Autonomously invokes a massive number of skills, intelligently and flexibly selecting models and skills.

To break down the barriers between "thinking" and "execution," Skywork Desktop Edition integrates over 100 carefully selected, truly useful skills, covering categories such as Office suite generation, webpage generation, image generation, and video generation.

The system automatically filters and recommends the most suitable skills and models based on each task, improving multitasking efficiency and simplifying user operations. Users can also manually select skills and models as needed, ensuring greater flexibility in complex multi-tasking scenarios.

In addition to having more advanced and intelligent models and functional designs in the initial product configuration, Skywork desktop version still has significant improvements in task generation quality and performance.

It can not only smoothly advance and execute tasks such as "desktop cross-file understanding and delivery, cross-format office work, and multimodal content production" locally, but also significantly surpasses the industry-leading level in the following three aspects:

4.  Superior image/video generation capabilities.

Skywork desktop generates higher quality and more semantically accurate images/videos. Users can achieve more professional and expressive results in multimodal tasks in office and creative scenarios.

5.  Improved processing speed.

Leveraging the Gemini model, Skywork Desktop's task processing speed significantly outperforms current industry standards. In "auto" mode, Skywork Desktop executes tasks rapidly, making office work more efficient and eliminating waiting times!

6.  Safe and controllable, becoming a reliable AI personal desktop assistant.

All operations in Skywork Desktop are completed in a local virtual machine isolation environment, eliminating the need to upload files to the cloud. This reduces the risk of data leakage and ensures the security of original files through virtualization isolation, preventing accidental deletion, corruption, and other issues, achieving "data doesn't go away, security is always with you."

In addition, all tasks generate content based on local documents, reducing erroneous output caused by online searches or blind reasoning; the operation checklist is confirmed with the user before the task is executed to ensure that the results meet expectations, making Skywork Desktop more controllable and reliable.

We welcome customers from different industries and positions with diverse needs to join us in exploring the infinite possibilities of Skywork.

Access & Contact

Skywork Super Agents (Web Version) Official Website:
https://skywork.ai/

Skywork Desktop Official Website:
https://skywork.ai/desktop

Skywork Cooperation & Business Inquiries:
feedback@skywork.ai

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