External links
This list will need to be further organized in the future:
Clinical calculators & assessment tools
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Diagnosis
- 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- Multiple Myeloma Diagnostic Criteria (Medscape) - outdated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)
Prognosis
- Adjuvant Online
- CancerMath.net - Clinical outcomes calculators for breast cancer, melanoma, and renal cancer
- Chronic myelogenous 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:
Other
- BloodRef.com - 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
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- 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
Guidelines & drug information
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- American Cancer Society (ACS) 2011 Cancer Screening Guidelines (PDF)
- Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) Cancer Screening and Symptom Management Guidelines
- 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
Hematology/Oncology & allied organizations
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This link will take you to a page listing professional organizations that are relevant to hematologists, oncologists, and allied professionals.
Oncology-specific vendors
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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
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- 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
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Research
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- 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
- 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
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- American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) Main Site
- American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) Cancer Staging Posters
Statistics
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- 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
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- 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
- What's the dose - Database of medications, package inserts, and dosages
- 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)