CSO welcomes engagement from all stakeholders – especially patient advocacy groups. If you are a clinician, patient, researcher, policy-maker, funder, regulator, academic, or member of the public please consider joining CSO.

CSO will promote interventions that measurably improve the lives of patients. We will celebrate well conducted trials and promote effective treatments but we will also speak up about and challenge interventions that might cause more harm than good. CSO will educate and empower the next generation of oncologists to push our field to do better for patients. We will seek to decrease global and regional inequities in access to affordable high-quality care. Improvements in the generation, interpretation, and communication of evidence will help close these gaps and move our field closer to a future in which a patient’s outcome is not determined by where they live, what they can afford, or the strength of a marketing campaign. The CSO initiative will undoubtedly evolve over time, but our core mission will continue to ensure that cancer care and innovation is focused on outcomes that matter to patients rather than the commercial bottom line.

There are no membership fees although we are accepting voluntary donations.

Members will receive regular CSO newsletter updates, have access to planned future educational events, and be able to virtually participate in open general of the organization. Over time we will be looking for new ways to engage members of the CSO community through projects related to advocacy, policy, research, and education.