Background and Objective: Patients with gynecologic malignancies experience high symptom burden associated with both their disease and sequelae of treatment, and are at risk for aggressive (and often futile) care at end-of-life. Early palliative care (PC) involvement is essential to improving quality of life in this population of patients through symptom management and advanced care planning discussions. The purpose of this review article is to discuss current PC screening tools used to trigger PC consultations for patients with gynecologic malignancies. PC screening tools are reviewed across both inpatient and outpatient clinical settings.Methods: A literature search was conducted utilizing PubMed ® and Excerpta Medica database (EMBASE ® ).Search terms included various combinations of palliative care, gynecologic oncology, gynecologic cancer, gynecologic malignancy, female genital tract cancer, trigger, consult, referral, and screen.