Patient Advocate Guideline Interest Form

The ASCO Guidelines team seeks to connect with patient advocates on a number of activities. Please indicate your interest in the below.


Patient Representative: Participate on the Expert Panel for a specific ASCO guideline, including development of the guideline protocol, drafting recommendations, and participating in regular meetings. Present the perspective of people affected by particular cancer or treatment-related issues and assist in drafting patient-clinician communication sections. Panel member participation is a volunteer position that typically lasts 18 months.


Open Comment: Draft recommendations are open for comment for a two-week period prior to submission to the Evidence Based Medicine Committee. Provide feedback on individual draft recommendations in your specified disease area(s).


Protocol Review: Provide feedback on protocols for clinical practice guidelines in your specified disease area(s).


Guideline Publications: Receive communications when ASCO guidelines are published in your specified disease area(s).


Please email guidelines@asco.org with questions. We look forward to working with you.

Please check the appropriate boxes if you are interested in any of the cross-cutting topics below.


Please check the boxes below to indicate your prior experience as a patient representative.


Are you interested in serving on an ASCO guideline panel as a patient representative?*