# NCCN Guidelines

> Use this tool when you need to access evidence-based cancer treatment protocols and clinical decision support guidelines. It provides automated web scraping, PDF downloading, and content extraction from the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) website, solving the problem of manual navigation and information retrieval for healthcare professionals and AI assistants. The tool accepts search queries and guideline specifications as input and returns relevant guideline pages and extracted content as output.

Canonical page: https://skillsregistry.net/skills/gscfwid-nccn-guidelines  
JSON: https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/gscfwid-nccn-guidelines

## Description

This MCP server provides AI assistants with access to the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) clinical practice guidelines through automated web scraping, PDF downloading, and content extraction capabilities. Built using Python with httpx for async HTTP requests, BeautifulSoup for HTML parsing, and pdfplumber for PDF text extraction, the implementation automatically scrapes NCCN's website to build a searchable index of guidelines, handles login authentication for PDF downloads with intelligent caching, and extracts specific pages from guideline PDFs while preserving layout and table structures. The server maintains a 7-day cache for both the guidelines index and downloaded PDFs to minimize server load, supports targeted page extraction for efficient content retrieval, and includes comprehensive logging for debugging, serving healthcare professionals and AI assistants requiring programmatic access to evidence-based cancer treatment protocols and clinical decision support without manual navigation of the NCCN website.

## Trust

- **Trust score (0–1):** 0.62
- **Verification tier:** scanned
- **Last scanned:** 2026-09-02

## Facts

- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Skill type:** atomic
- **Execution layer:** mcp-remote
- **Runtime environment:** api
- **Category:** browser-automation
- **Updated:** 2026-09-02

## Source

- **Source listing:** [PulseMCP](https://www.pulsemcp.com/servers/gscfwid-nccn-guidelines)
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/gscfwid/nccn_guidelines_mcp>

## Use it

Resolve this record through the SkillsRegistry MCP server (no auth, read-only):

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user skillsregistry https://api.skillsregistry.net/mcp
```

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "get_skill",
    "arguments": {
      "slug": "gscfwid-nccn-guidelines"
    }
  }
}
```

REST: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/gscfwid-nccn-guidelines` · pull for local use: `GET https://api.skillsregistry.net/v1/skills/gscfwid-nccn-guidelines/pull`

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