The ESMO Pocket Guidelines provide easily accessible abridged versions of ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines. Our guidelines mobile App is compatible with Android and iOS devices and include content from ESMO Pocket Guidelines.
Printed copies of the Pocket Guidelines are distributed during ESMO events. The full ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) are published in Annals of Oncology.
ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPG) focus on the best standards of cancer care. They are developed by groups of expert authors who formulated recommendations based on evidence-based medicine. The ESMO CPGs and consensus statements are intended to provide you with a set of recommendations for the best standards of care within various disease areas. Implementation of ESMO CPGs facilitates knowledge uptake and helps you to deliver an appropriate quality of focused care to your patients.
These pocket guidelines booklets can be used as a quick reference guide to access key content on evidence-based management of various cancers. Key content includes diagnostic criteria, staging of disease, treatment plans and follow-up. The approval and licensed indication of drugs mentioned in these pocket guidelines may vary in different countries. Please consult your local prescribing information.
ESMO Interactive Guidelines App
The ESMO Interactive Guidelines App offers many additional features including interactive algorithms. The latest release contains the 2018 ESMO Pocket Guidelines on breast cancer, leukaemia & myeloma, lung & chest tumours, lymphomas, supportive care, urogenital cancers and upper gastrointestinal cancer, as well as the 2017 update of the lower gastrointestinal cancer title.
In the same App, you will also find the library versions (PDF format) of the titles gynaecological malignancies (2018), melanoma (2015), bone health (2014), head & neck cancer (2013) and sarcoma & GIST (2018)
The 2019 versions of the ESMO Pocket Guidelines will be available in early 2020.
The ESMO Interactive Guidelines App is available in two versions:
Web App
Mobile App
- iPhone and iPad available on App Store
- Android version available on Play Store
Breast Cancer
This quick reference booklet provides you with the most important content of the full ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) and consensus statements on the management of breast cancer including primary breast cancer and BRCA and other high-risk mutations in breast cancer and the ESO-ESMO consensus guidelines on advanced breast cancer.
Updated version: published September 2019
Endocrine & Neuroendocrine Cancers
This quick reference booklet provided you with the most important content of the full ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) on the management of endocrine and neuroendocrine cancers including thyroid cancer, adrenal cancer, neuroendocrine bronchial and thymic tumours as well as neuroendocrine gastro-entero-pancreatic tumours.
Updated version: published September 2019
Lung & Chest Tumours
This quick reference booklet provides you with the most important content of the full ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) and consensus statements on the management of lung cancers including early-stage, locally advanced and metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and small cell lung cancer (SCLC) and chest tumours (malignant pleural mesothelioma and thymic epithelial tumours).
Updated version: published September 2019
Lymphomas
These Pocket Guidelines provides you with the most important content of the full ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) on the management of lymphomas: Hodgkin lymphoma, diffuse large B cell lymphoma, mantle cell lymphoma, follicular lymphoma, Waldenström’s macroglobulinaemia, gastric marginal zone lymphoma of MALT type, primary cutaneous lymphomas, peripheral T cell lymphomas, extranodal diffuse large B cell lymphoma and primary mediastinal B cell lymphoma, chronic lymphocytic leukaemia and hairy cell leukaemia.
Updated version: published October 2018
Upper Gastrointestinal Cancers
This quick reference booklet provides you with the most important content of the full ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) on upper gastrointestinal (GI) tumours: oesophageal cancer, gastric cancer, biliary cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, hereditary gastrointestinal cancers and pancreatic cancer.
Updated version: published September 2019
Urogenital Cancer
These Pocket Guidelines provide you with the most important content of the full ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) on the management of urogenital cancers including prostate cancer, bladder cancer, renal cell carcinoma, penile cancer and testicular seminoma and non-seminoma.
Updated version: published October 2018
Supportive Care
This quick reference booklet provides you with the most important content of the full ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) and consensus statements on various aspects of supportive care for your patients. Key content includes central venous access in oncology, prevention of chemotherapy- and radiotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting, management of febrile neutropaenia, mucositis, venous thromboembolism, infusion reactions, anaemia and iron deficiency, diarrhoea, toxicities from immunotherapy, and extravasation associated with the administration of chemotherapeutic agents.
Updated version: published September 2019
Leukaemia & Myeloma
This quick reference booklet provides you with the most important content of the full ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) on the management of leukaemia and myeloma including acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, acute myeloblastic leukaemia, chronic myeloid leukaemia, myelodysplastic syndromes, Philadelphia chromosome-negative chronic myeloproliferative neoplasias and multiple myeloma.
Updated version: published September 2019
Gynaecological Malignancies
This quick reference booklet provides you with the most important content of the full ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) on gynaecological malignancies including newly diagnosed and relapsed epithelial ovarian carcinoma, nonepithelial ovarian cancer, cervical cancer, endometrial cancer and gestational trophoblastic disease.
Published October 2018
Sarcoma & GIST
This quick reference booklet provides you with the most important content of the full ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) on the management of sarcomas (bone, soft tissue and visceral sarcomas) and gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs).
Published October 2018
Lower Gastrointestinal Cancers
This quick reference booklet provides you with the most important content of the full ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines and consensus statements on the management of lower gastrointestinal tumours including early colon cancer, rectal cancer, hereditary gastrointestinal cancers, metastatic CRC and anal cancer.
Updated version: published September 2019
Melanoma
These Pocket Guidelines provides an overview of the latest clinical practice recommendations. It summarises the updated cutaneous melanoma guideline that has been developed by European experts on behalf of the European Society for Medical Oncology.
Published September 2015
Bone Health
These Pocket Guidelines summarise diagnosis, treatment and follow-up recommendation for bone health in cancer patients. Key content includes pathophysiology, incidence and clinical consequences, diagnosis and monitoring, assessment of response and treatment.
Published September 2014
Head & Neck Cancer
These Pocket Guidelines summarise diagnosis, treatment and follow-up recommendation for head and neck cancer (HSNCC). They also include a section on nasopharyngeal cancer.
Published September 2013