American Society of Clinical Oncology
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| Motto | Making a world of difference in cancer care |
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| Formation | 1964 |
| Headquarters | Alexandria, Virginia |
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Membership
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More than 40,000 |
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Official language
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English |
| Website | asco |
The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is a professional organization representing physicians of all oncology sub-specialties who care for people with cancer. Founded in 1964 by Drs. Fred Ansfield, Harry Bisel, Herman Freckman, Arnoldus Goudsmit, Robert Talley, William Wilson, and Jane C. Wright, ASCO represents more than 40,000 oncology professionals who care for people living with cancer. As the world’s leading organization of its kind, ASCO's mission is to conquer cancer through research, education, and promotion of the highest quality patient care. ASCO's vision is a world where cancer is prevented or cured, and every survivor is healthy.
ASCO offers several educational resources for cancer physicians and other health care professionals in the field of clinical oncology. These resources include scientific meetings, educational conferences, professional workshops, and special symposia on issues of particular relevance and importance to clinical oncologists and researchers.
ASCO publishes numerous journals, books, newsletters, and online and multimedia resources. In addition to producing the patient information website of Cancer.Net, ASCO publishes the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO), the most credible, authoritative peer-reviewed resource for disseminating significant clinical cancer research, the Journal of Oncology Practice (JOP), with the goal of being the authoritative resource on clinical and administrative management for practicing oncologists in their daily clinical and administrative practice operations, and the Journal of Global Oncology (JGO), the online-only, open access journal that fulfills a growing need for high-quality literature on the array of challenges that health care professionals in resource-limited settings face in caring for patients with cancer and in conducting research. Two other online-only journals published by ASCO include JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics, which publishes clinically relevant research based on biomedical informatics methods and processes applied to cancer-related data, information, and images, and JCO Precision Oncology, which publishes original research, reports, opinions, and reviews that will advance the science and practice of precision oncology and define genomics-driven clinical care of patients with cancer.
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