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
  • 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• Multiple Myeloma Diagnostic Criteria (Medscape) - outdated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)

Prognosis

• Adjuvant Online
• CancerMath.net - Clinical outcomes calculators for breast cancer, melanoma, and renal cancer
• Chronic myelogenous leukemia risk scores
  • EUTOS Score (BloodRef.com)
  • Sokal & Hasford Relative Risk Scores (BloodRef.com)
• ePrognosis - site to estimate mortality outcomes in geriatric populations
• Melanoma Prediction Tool
• Myelodysplastic syndrome International Prognostic Scoring System
  • IPSS (BloodRef.com)
  • IPSS (Medscape)
  • IPSS-R (BloodRef.com)
  • WHO classification-based prognostic scoring system (BloodRef.com)

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)

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
• Intro to Clinical Oncology

Guidelines & drug information

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• 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
• 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

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

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

• 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

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• American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) Main Site

Statistics

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• 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

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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
• 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