NCCN launches Just Bag It campaign for safe handling of vincristine

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NCCN announced the launch of Just Bag It: The NCCN Campaign for Safe Vincristine Handling. This campaign encourages health care providers to adopt a policy to always dilute and administer vincristine in a mini IV-drip bag to prevent a deadly medical error. If vincristine is mistakenly administered into the spinal fluid, it is uniformly fatal,...

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