Publications and Resources

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.

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 PDF version or order printed copies through the ASCO University 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 PDF version or order additional copies through the ASCO University Bookstore.

Managing the Cost of Cancer Care: This 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 University Bookstore.

Advanced Cancer Care Planning: This booklet is designed to help people with advanced cancer and their families understand the diagnosis and treatment options, discuss these options for care throughout the course of the illness, and find support. Download a PDF version or order additional copies through the ASCO University Bookstore.

Cancer Survivorship: This guidebook helps patients understand what to expect as treatment is completed; explains common challenges faced by survivors; and offers suggestions for next steps in the post-treatment period. Download a PDF version or order additional copies through the ASCO University Bookstore.

Cancer in Older Adults: This 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 University 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.

Progress Against Cancer: Detailed information about the most significant discoveries in cancer research from clinical trials over the past 40 years.

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: ASCO offers oncology professionals the ASCO University Slide Library, which contains a growing archive of slides that can be used for patient education and community presentations.

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.