Publications and Resources

ASCO Answers Fact Sheets: These fact sheets provide a brief overview of a specific type of cancer or cancer-related topic, including terms to know, and questions to ask the doctor. Download a free PDF version or order printed copies through the ASCO Bookstore.

Printed Guides to Cancer: These booklets are the printed versions of Cancer.Net’s comprehensive information on the four most common types of cancer. Download a free PDF version or order additional copies through the ASCO Bookstore.

Managing the Cost of Cancer Care: This free, detailed guide contains information on understanding the costs related to cancer care, questions to ask, financial resources, tips for getting organized, examples of how insurance works, and resources to help patients manage the financial impact of a cancer diagnosis. Download a PDF version or order additional copies through the ASCO Bookstore.

Cancer in Older Adults: This free, detailed guide is based on the ASCO Curriculum, Cancer Care in the Older Population, which addresses the unique needs and concerns of older people with cancer, including cancer in daily life, treatment, co-existing conditions, health assessment, clinical trials, questions to ask your doctor, and patient resources. Download a PDF version or order additional copies through the ASCO Bookstore.

Cancer Advances: These publications provide summaries of research advances in clinical oncology from the Journal of Clinical Oncology, ASCO's Annual Meetings, ASCO Symposia, and ASCO's Meet the Experts events, available online and as a printable PDF.

What to Know: ASCO's Guidelines: These are patient-friendly guides based on ASCO's Clinical Practice Guidelines for physicians, available online and as a printable PDF.

Clinical Cancer Advances: This report published by ASCO summarizes the most important treatment, prevention, and screening advances in clinical cancer research each year, with accompanying multimedia.

Inside Cancer.Net: Inside Cancer.Net is a monthly e-newsletter that highlights new and noteworthy articles, videos, podcasts, and events for people in the cancer community, patients, and families and friends. Sign up now to receive it.

Find an Oncologist: These resources provide information to help you choose a doctor and seek a second opinion, including the Find an Oncologist database.

ASCO Cancer Education Slides: These ready-to-use slide presentations, adapted from select Cancer.Net Guides to Cancer, are available for free download for oncologists, oncology nurses, and other members of the health care team.

ASCO and NCI Patient Information Wallet Card: ASCO and NCI have developed a card that patients can carry in their wallets that will guide them to ASCO’s patient information Web site and NCI’s Cancer Information Service if they are displaced from their homes due to a disaster situation.

The Oncologist's Perspective: The Art of Oncology – Learn more about this collection of essays written by physicians about the emotional issues they themselves encounter while caring for people with cancer.

Collaborative Activities: These are events in which ASCO and/or Cancer.Net has collaborated with various organizations.

Support and Resource Links: These are links to cancer-specific resources, cancer centers and cooperative groups, government agencies, international patient information, financial resources, information on support groups, journals, magazines, medical dictionaries, and drug information.