Advance care planning (ACP) is the process by which a patient reflects on their goals, values, and beliefs to make decisions about their future medical care. In older adult populations, ACP has been associated with improved outcomes, including reductions in aggressive care near the end of life, increased use of hospice care, and improved bereavement outcomes among family members. As a result, existing oncology guidelines recommend that ACP occur with patients who have a life expectancy of months to years. However, these conversations are uncommon in oncology settings, with rates of ACP documentation as low as 10% in outpatient oncology. This Special Issue of Current Oncology aims to showcase research that investigates issues related to advance care planning with cancer patients. We invite researchers to address either one of the following topics or a related topic:

• Provider-, patient-, and system-level interventions to implement ACP in oncology practice;
• Team-based approaches to ACP in oncology practice, including roles and outcomes of physician- vs other health professional-led discussions;
• Patient and family preferences for and experiences with ACP, including those of underserved and diverse populations;
• Impacts of ACP on patient, family, provider, and/or health system outcomes;
• Initiating and conducting ACP with cancer patients during a global pandemic.

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Current Oncology is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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• advance care planning
• advance directives
• cancer
• implementation science
• communication