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This list will need to be further organized in the future:
Clinical calculators & assessment tools
Diagnosis
- ASK2ME: All Syndromes Known to Man Evaluator
- Gail model Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool
- Multiple Myeloma Diagnostic Criteria (Medscape) - outdated
- Solitary Pulmonary Nodule Malignancy Risk (Mayo Clinic model)
- WHO classification of myelodysplasia (BloodRef.com; dead as of 2/2020)
Prognosis
- Adjuvant Online
- CancerMath.net - Clinical outcomes calculators for breast cancer, melanoma, and renal cancer
- Chronic myeloid leukemia risk scores
- ePrognosis - site to estimate mortality outcomes in geriatric populations
- Melanoma Prediction Tool
- Myelodysplastic syndrome International Prognostic Scoring System
Treatment dosing
- Body surface area (BSA) calculator
- Carboplatin AUC calculator
- Creatinine clearance calculator (GlobalRPH) - calculates based on ideal body weight
- Creatinine clearance calculator (Medical College of Wisconsin) - calculates based on actual weight
- Fentanyl patch conversion calculator (GlobalRPH)
- Opioid conversion calculator (simpler) (GlobalRPH)
- Opioid conversion calculator (complex) (GlobalRPH's "Advanced Opioid Converter")
Risks of treatment
- Bleeding risk on anticoagulation:
- Cancer Drug Interactions
Other
- BloodRef.com (dead as of 2/2020) - an extensive collection of diagnosis, prognosis, and response tools focused on benign and malignant hematology
- BMT date calculator
- Corrected calcium (albumin)
- FeNa; FeUrea
- Geriatric Assessment Tools
- Online hematology/oncology clinical calculators
- Reticulocyte index calculator
- The Medical Algorithms Company formerly known as medal
- SIRS, Sepsis, and Septic Shock criteria
- timeanddate.com - a useful resource e.g. for calculating dates between chemotherapy cycles
- Date Add Calculator - this timeanddate.com calculator lets you calculate an end date for any given start date and duration
- WolframAlpha - plain language calculations, unit conversions, etc.
- WHO FRAX - to evaluate fracture risk of patients
Education and Other Wikis
- ASCO University
- ASH image bank - online collection of hematology-related slides
- ASH Self-assessment program (ASH-SAP)
- Clinical Flow Wiki Free flow cytometry wiki with images
- Heme Onc Notes Resource with handouts and overviews of hematology/oncology topics
- Libre Pathology Free pathology wiki with images
- Pathology Outlines
- Intro to Clinical Oncology
Guidelines & drug information
- Cancer Drug Interaction tool
- American Cancer Society (ACS) 2011 Cancer Screening Guidelines (PDF)
- Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) Cancer Screening and Symptom Management Guidelines
- ESMO (European Society for Medical Oncology) Clinical Practice Guidelines
- eviQ "A free resource of evidence-based, consensus driven cancer treatment protocols and information for use at the point of care. eviQ is developed for the Australian context and supports health professionals in the delivery of cancer treatments."
- FDA drug information (Drugs@FDA)
- Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) antimicrobial agent guidelines
- NCCN (National Comprehensive Cancer Network) clinical practice guidelines
- U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) cancer screening guidelines
- National Guideline Clearinghouse Defunct since 2018
- GuidelineCentral.com
Hematology/Oncology & allied organizations
This link will take you to a page listing professional organizations that are relevant to hematologists, oncologists, and allied professionals.
Oncology-specific vendors
This link will take you to a page listing EHR vendors, analytics companies, and other oncology-specific commercially available products. Please note that inclusion on these lists is not an endorsement of the product, nor is exclusion a non-endorsement.
Patient & family information
- ACOR.org - Association of Cancer Online Resources, a group of disease-oriented mailing lists for patients and their families
- Cancer.net - Cancer information from the American Society of Clinical Oncology
- Cancer risk reduction strategies (American Cancer Society)
- Chemocare.com - chemotherapy side effects
- Clinical trials (clinicaltrials.gov)
- Clinical trials, National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- Financial strategies when dealing with serious illness
- NCCN guidelines for patients
- National Cancer Institute (NCI) information for caregivers, family, and friends of people with cancer
- Patient assistance and reimbursement guide, 2013 ACCC (PDF) (flash book)
- WhatNext - American Cancer Society-affiliated patient peer support and educational site
Physician contact information
Research
- Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia by the Broad Institute and Novartis, which describes the gene expression of multiple cell lines.
- Cancer GeneticsWeb
- The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) at the National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- CancerRxGene.org - Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer. Database & graphs of the responses of genes & cell lines to anti-cancer drugs.
- Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) and Common Toxicity Criteria (CTC) - Adverse event grading for clinical trials (FTP)
- Version 5.0
- CTCAE version 5.0 5x7" small booklet format pdf; CTCAE version 5.0 5x7" small booklet format pdf (locally hosted backup)
- CTCAE version 5.0 8.5x11" letter size format pdf; CTCAE version 5.0 8.5x11" letter size format pdf (locally hosted backup)
- CTCAE version 5.0 NCIt xls; CTCAE version 5.0 NCIt xls (locally hosted backup)
- CTCAE version 5.0 xls; CTCAE version 5.0 xls (locally hosted backup)
- Version 4.0
- Harvard Catalyst SHRINE - "web-based query tool that allows eligible investigators to determine the aggregate total number of patients at participating hospitals who meet a given set of inclusion and exclusion criteria"
- My Cancer Genome - Information & clinical trials by mutation type
Staging
Statistics
- CDC cancer statistics
- Life expectancy table - from the US Social Security Administration
- Life expectancy calculator - based on gender & birthdate, from the US Social Security Administration
- National Cancer Institute (NCI) / Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) cancer statistics
Miscellaneous
- Apollo Medicinae Doctor - Lester Leung M.D.'s blog on neurology and being a physician
- Drug and disease search app - Phone & tablet-friendly application that allows people to quickly search for information about drugs and diseases at Drugs.com, Medscape, Epocrates, Wikipedia, ICD-9, etc.
- AMP Hematopathology Test Directory (searchable)
- Medical wiki list on Wikipedia
- OncoWiki - an oncology and chemotherapy regimen wiki
- PharmacistSchools.org - Extensive list of references and curated links to useful websites for pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and other professionals
- Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (Global Alliance)
- Radiopaedia - a very large radiology wiki with many hematology/oncology examples
- Wiki Journal Club - a wiki that focuses on a small number of seminal articles at great depth (more general than hematology & oncology, but includes these)
- How I Treat (Blood Journal)
- Palliative Care Fast Facts - quick resource
- DFCI / BWH Pain management / anti emetic references