Building an advisory board, openly

Expertise we are recruiting

• Medical oncology and hematology
• Oncology nursing and patient navigation
• Pharmacy and medication safety
• Cancer rehabilitation, nutrition, and survivorship
• Pediatric and AYA cancer support
• Spanish-language patient education
• Financial navigation, access, and health equity

What board members will and will not do

Advisory-board members may advise on editorial priorities, safety risks, plain-language gaps, access issues, and review workflows. They will not provide personal medical advice through the site, and their participation will not imply endorsement of every page unless a page shows that they reviewed it.

How we will disclose members

Once seated, each public profile will include name, credentials, role, relevant experience, date joined, and conflict-of-interest notes. If a board member reviews a specific page, that page will show separate review metadata.

How content is sourced and checked today, before a board is seated

An advisory board is not a prerequisite for careful sourcing — it is an additional layer on top of a process that already runs on every page. Every article restates guidance already published by the National Cancer Institute, the CDC, the USPSTF, the FDA, and other federal and major medical sources, with the source cited so a reader can check the original. Claims, citations, clarity, and safety are checked before anything publishes, and pages are revisited as sources update. The full workflow — from topic planning through source checking, editorial review, and publishing — is documented on How we create and review content, and the source standards themselves are on Source methodology. Our current clinician-review status, including what has and has not been reviewed by a named credentialed person, is on Reviewer credits and clinical review status.

Clinicians, navigators, translators, and patient advocates can start at Volunteer to review content.