External links

This list will need to be further organized in the future:

Clinical calculators & assessment tools

• Adjuvant Online
• BloodRef.com - an extensive collection of diagnosis, prognosis, and response tools focused on benign and malignant hematology
• BMT date calculator
• Body surface area (BSA) calculator
• CancerMath.net - Clinical outcomes calculators for breast cancer, melanoma, and renal cancer
• Carboplatin AUC calculator
• CML Sokal & Hasford Relative Risk Scores
• Corrected calcium (albumin)
• Creatinine clearance calculator (GlobalRPH)
• Creatinine clearance calculator (Medical College of Wisconsin) - make sure to use ideal body weight
• ePrognosis - site to estimate mortality outcomes in geriatric populations
• Gail model Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool
  • Gail model breast cancer risk factors
• Geriatric Assessment Tools
• Melanoma Prediction Tool
• Online hematology/oncology clinical calculators
• Reticulocyte index calculator
• WolframAlpha - plain language calculations, unit conversions, etc.
• WHO FRAX - to evaluate fracture risk of patients

Education

• ASCO University
• ASH image bank - online collection of hematology-related slides
• ASH Self-assessment program (ASH-SAP)

Guidelines & drug information

• American Cancer Society (ACS) 2011 Cancer Screening Guidelines (PDF)
  • American Cancer Society (ACS) 2011 Cancer Screening Guidelines (website)
• FDA drug information (Drugs@FDA)
  • FDA drug approval reports by month
  • FDA Hematology/Oncology (Cancer) Approvals & Safety Notifications
• NCCN (National Comprehensive Cancer Network) clinical practice guidelines
• U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) cancer screening guidelines

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 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
• Chemocare.com - chemotherapy side effects
• NCCN guidelines for patients
• Patient assistance and reimbursement guide, 2013 ACCC (PDF) (flash book)
• WhatNext - American Cancer Society-affiliated patient peer support and educational site

Physician contact information

• AMA (American Medical Association) DoctorFinder
• NPI Registry Search

Research

• Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia by the Broad Institute and the Novartis, which describes the gene expression of multiple cell lines.
• 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

• CTCAE 5x7" small booklet format local backup
• CTCAE 8.5x11" letter size format local backup

• 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

• American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) Main Site
• American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) Cancer Staging Posters

Statistics

• American Cancer Society (ACS) Cancer Facts & Figures

• Cancers with increasing incidence trends in the United States: 1999 through 2008
• Survivorship care plans in research and practice

• 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.
• Genomic Health Oncotype DX
• AMP Hematopathology Test Directory (searchable)
• OncoWiki - an oncology and chemotherapy regimen wiki
• What's the dose - Database of medications, package inserts, and dosages