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This list will need to be further organized in the future:
Clinical calculators & assessment tools
- Adjuvant Online
- Bleeding risk on anticoagulation: HAS-BLED; HEMORR2HAGES
- 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
- FeNa; FeUrea
- Gail model Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool
- 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)
- FDA drug information (Drugs@FDA)
- 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
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
- 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
- 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