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Clinical Recommendations

SSO supports quality patient care by developing recommendations to improve compassionate cancer care and to optimize patient outcomes. SSO works toward these goals four ways:

Developing Recommendations

SSO develops recommendations as an organization.

Collaborating with Other Organizations

SSO collaborates with other organizations to develop recommendations.

Providing Experts to External Projects

SSO provides surgical oncology experts for others’ recommendation projects.

Endorsing Work of Other Organizations

SSO endorses recommendations of collaborative work and/or the work of other organizations.

SSO has recommendations for the following disease sites.

Multispeciality

Choosing Wisely: SSO Five Things Physicians and Patients Should Question (2021)

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Breast

Society of Surgical Oncology Breast Disease Site Working Group Statement on Contralateral Mastectomy: Indications, Outcomes, and Risks

(Annals of Surgical Oncology, 2024)

Germline Testing in Patients with Breast Cancer: ASCO-Society of Surgical Oncology Guideline

(Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2024)

Editorial-Updated Guidelines on When to Consider Germline Testing for Patients with Breast Cancer

(Annals of Surgical Oncology, 2024)

Partial Breast Irradiation for Patients with Early-Stage Invasive Breast Cancer or Ductal Carcinoma in Situ: An ASTRO Clinical Practice Guideline

(Practical Radiation Oncology, 2023)

Editorial-Surgical Perspectives on the Updated ASTRO Guideline on Partial Breast Irradiation for Breast Cancer

(Annals of Surgical Oncology, 2024)

Management of Hereditary Breast Cancer: American Society of Clinical Oncology, American Society for Radiation Oncology, and Society of Surgical Oncology Guideline

(Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2020)

Editorial-Management of Hereditary Breast Cancer: ASCO, ASTRO and SSO Guideline

(Annals of Surgical Oncology, 2020)

Society of Surgical Oncology-American Society for Radiation Oncology-American Society of Clinical Oncology Consensus Guideline on Margins for Breast-Conserving Surgery With Whole Breast Irradiation in Ductal Carcinoma In Situ

(Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2016/Affirmed 2019)

Society of Surgical Oncology-American Society of Radiation Oncology Consensus Guideline on Margins for Breast-Conserving Surgery With Whole-Breast Irradiation in Stages I and II Invasive Breast Cancer

(Annals of Surgical Oncology, 2014)

In Development

Postmastectomy Radiotherapy: ASTRO-ASCO-SSO Guideline

International Consensus Guideline for 2nd Ipsilateral Breast Cancer Event (2nd iBCE) Management

SSO/ASBrS Collaborative Review: Advantages of Neoadjuvant Systemic Therapy

Colorectal

ASTRO Guideline on Radiation Therapy for Rectal Cancer

(Practical Radiation Oncology, 2020)

In Development

ASTRO Radiation Therapy for Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Anal Canal

Gastrointestinal

D2 Lymphadenectomy for Gastric Cancer: Advancements and Technical Considerations (2024)

In Development

ASTRO Radiotherapy for Gastric Cancer

Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary

External Beam Radiation Therapy for Primary Liver Cancers: An ASTRO Clinical Practice Guideline

(Practical Radiation Oncology, 2021)​

Editorial-External Beam Radiation Therapy for Primary Liver Cancers: An ASTRO Clinical Practice Guideline-A Surgical Perspective

(Annals of Surgical Oncology, 2023)

Radiation Therapy for Pancreatic Cancer: Executive Summary of an ASTRO Clinical Practice Guideline

(Practical Radiation Oncology, 2019)

In Development

Joint Consensus Guideline with NANETS: Surgical and Liver-directed Management of Neuroendocrine Liver Metastasis

Melanoma

ASTRO Guideline on Definitive and Postoperative Radiation Therapy for Basal and Squamous Cell Cancers of the Skin

(Practical Radiation Oncology, 2019)

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