Volunteer reviewers
Lend your expertise: review our content
Cancer Explained publishes free, plain-language cancer guides that are AI-assisted and anchored to trusted public sources like the NCI, CDC, and FDA. What our pages need most is more human eyes with clinical training. If you have that training — or you’re earning it — an hour or two a month of your time makes this library measurably safer.
Who we’re looking for
You don’t need to be an oncologist. If you can read a page critically and check it against the sources it cites, you can help.
Registered nurses & oncology nurses
You explain cancer to patients every day — you'll spot unclear or outdated wording fast.
Physicians — including retired
Practicing or retired, any specialty. Retired clinicians are some of the best reviewers we could ask for.
Nurse practitioners & physician assistants
Front-line experience with what patients actually ask makes your read invaluable.
Pharmacists
Help us keep treatment and side-effect pages careful, current, and free of overreach.
Genetic counselors
Hereditary risk and biomarker pages need your precision most of all.
Medical & nursing students
Review with a citation checklist, build your portfolio, and get documented public credit.
Trained patient advocates
Completed a recognized advocacy or peer-navigation training? You know where plain language breaks down.
What reviewing involves
1
Pick articles in your area
You choose what to review — a topic you know well, at whatever pace fits your life. We can suggest pages that need eyes, but nothing is assigned.
2
Check them against the sources
Every article lists the trusted sources it summarizes (NCI, CDC, FDA, and similar). You confirm the page says what the sources say — no more, no less.
3
Suggest plain-language fixes
Flag anything unclear, outdated, missing, or overstated, and suggest simpler wording. We make the edits and record your review on the page.
- About 1–2 hours a month
- Fully remote — any time zone
- No minimum commitment
What you get
Public credit on every page you review
Your name, credentials, and review date appear directly on each page — a documented, linkable record of your contribution.
A contribution letter
On request, we'll write a letter documenting your volunteer review work — useful for student portfolios, residency applications, and continuing-education records.
Real reach
These free guides are read by patients and caregivers at some of the hardest moments of their lives. An hour of your expertise makes them safer.
How our review process works — honestly
Cancer Explained uses AI to organize and translate information from the authoritative sources cited on each page. Automated checks review claims, citations, clarity, duplication, and potential safety concerns before publication. Our content is not currently reviewed by physicians unless a specific qualified reviewer is named on the page. Cancer Explained provides general education and should not replace advice from your healthcare team.
That honesty is the point. We never claim a review that didn’t happen — and that’s exactly why volunteer reviewers matter. When you review a page, we record your name, credentials, and review date on that page, so readers can see precisely who checked what. Your review strengthens a system that is already source-grounded; it never rubber-stamps content you haven’t actually read.
How to apply
No forms, no accounts. Send one email to [email protected] with four things:
- 1Your name
- 2Your credentials (e.g., RN, MD, PharmD, genetic counselor, or the program you're studying in)
- 3The area(s) you'd feel comfortable reviewing
- 4A link that helps us verify you — a state license lookup, your LinkedIn profile, or an institutional page
What happens next: a person reads every application — usually within a week. We verify credentials before anyone is credited as a reviewer, then start you with one short article in your area so you can see whether the work suits you. Questions first? Just email us at the same address.
Want to help in other ways? See every way to get involved.