External links

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
  • Gail model breast cancer risk factors
• Multiple Myeloma Diagnostic Criteria (Medscape) - outdated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
  • EUTOS Score (BloodRef.com; dead as of 2/2020)
  • Sokal & Hasford Relative Risk Scores (BloodRef.com; dead as of 2/2020)
• ePrognosis - site to estimate mortality outcomes in geriatric populations
• Melanoma Prediction Tool
• Myelodysplastic syndrome International Prognostic Scoring System
  • IPSS (BloodRef.com; dead as of 2/2020)
  • IPSS (Medscape)
  • IPSS-R (BloodRef.com; dead as of 2/2020)
  • WHO classification-based prognostic scoring system (BloodRef.com; dead as of 2/2020)

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:
  • HAS-BLED (GlobalRPh)
  • HEMORR2HAGES (GlobalRPh)
  • Bleeding Risk (any bleeding complication) on Warfarin Therapy (Medscape)
  • Bleeding Risk (major complication) on Warfarin Therapy (Medscape)
  • Bleeding Risk Index for Warfarin Therapy (Medscape)
• 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

• ASCO University
• ASH image bank - online collection of hematology-related slides
• ASH Self-assessment program (ASH-SAP)
• 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)
  • American Cancer Society (ACS) 2011 Cancer Screening Guidelines (website)
• Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) Cancer Screening and Symptom Management Guidelines
• ESMO (European Society for Medical Oncology) Clinical Practice Guidelines
  • The role of patient-reported outcome measures in the continuum of cancer clinical care: ESMO Clinical Practice Guideline
• 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)
  • FDA drug approval reports by month
  • FDA Hematology/Oncology (Cancer) Approvals & Safety Notifications
• 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

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

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

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

• CTCAE 5x7" small booklet format File:CTCAE4 5x7.pdf
• CTCAE 8.5x11" letter size format File:CTCAE4 8.5x11.pdf

• 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

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.
• 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