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ADVANCES IN WEBSITE INFORMATION RESOURCES
TABLE 2. Calculators, Dosing, and Conversion Tools
Name URL Description Access Restrictions
Adjuvant Online adjuvantonline.com/index.jsp …to help health professionals and patients with
early cancer discuss the risks and benefits of
getting additional therapy…
BloodRef.com bloodref.com Summary of key diagnostic, scoring, and
prognostic systems relevant to hematology
Body surface area calculator www-users.med.cornell.edu/spon/ Calculates BSA using DuBois and DuBois formula
picu/calc/bsacalc.htm
CancerMath.net cancer.lifemath.net Clinical outcomes calculators for breast, colon,
head and neck, melanoma, and renal cancer
Requires registration
of free account
Free to use
Free to use
Free to use
ePocrates epocrates.com Several medical calculators, some oncology-specific Free with installation
of ePocrates
ePrognosis eprognosis.ucsf.edu Estimate prognosis for elders (not cancer-specific) Free to use
Fox Chase Cancer Center
nomograms
labs.fccc.edu/nomograms/ Nomograms for a variety of genitourinary cancers Free to use with acceptance
of agreement
Geriatric Assessment Tools www.healthcare.uiowa.edu/igec/tools/ A collection of calculators relevant to geriatric
patients (e.g., fall risk, weight loss, etc.)
GlobalRPh Medical Calculators globalrph.com/medcalcs.htm A large collection of calculators mostly concerning
dosing and laboratory parameters
Knight Cancer Institute Cancer
Survivor Predication Calculator
Life Expectancy Calculator
skynet.ohsu.edu/nomograms/
socialsecurity.gov/OACT/population/
longevity.html
Cancer survival prediction calculators for a variety
of cancer types
Calculator shows the average number of additional
years a person can expect to live, based only
on the gender and date of birth you enter
(USA only)
MCW Health Calculators .mcw.edu/MCW-Health-Calculators.htm A small collection of calculators, two relevant to
oncology: BMI and eGFR
MD Anderson Clinical Calculators
Nomograms for breast, colorectal, esophageal,
and pancreatic cancer
MDCalc mdcalc.com A large collection of calculators that are organized
by specialty and system
Medal medal.org “The largest international knowledge base of
medical algorithms and computational procedures
for medical diagnosis, treatment
and administration”
Medscape
mdanderson.org/education-and-research/
resources-for-professionals/clinicaltools-and-resources/clinicalcalculators/index.html
reference.Medscape.com/guide/medicalcalculators
A large collection of calculators, some of which
are hematology specific
Melanoma prediction tool melanomaprognosis.org/ Individualized melanoma patient outcome predictions,
based on the American Joint Committee
of Cancer Melanoma Database
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer
Center prediction tools
mskcc.org/nomograms
A large number of nomograms for varying solid
tumor types
QxMD qxmd.com/calculate-online/hematology A large collection of calculators that are organized
by specialty. Also available as apps
Stanford BMT Calculators bmt.stanford.edu/calculators A small collection of calculators: BSA, date from
transplant, and height/weight conversions
WolframAlpha https://www.wolframalpha.com/ A general computational knowledge engine that
does unit conversions in addition to many
other things
Free to use
Free to use
Free to use
Free to use
Free to use
Free to use
Free to use
Requires registration
of free account
Free to use
Free to use
Free to use with acceptance
of disclaimer
Free to use
Free to use
Free to use
available chemotherapy regimen resource and has been
evaluated as highly usable and relevant by its users. 29 HemOnc.org
also contains extensive information on 439 chemotherapeutic
or supportive medications, 127 of which
are in clinical trials. New content and functionality is constantly
being added; an example of a recent enhancement
is shown in Fig. 3.
ChemoRegimen.com and Cancer Therapy Advisor
ChemoRegimen.com is also a freely available source of chemotherapy
regimen information. However, the site partnered
with Monthly Prescribing Reference (Haymarket
Media, London, United Kingdom) in 2008, and new content
has not been added since that time. It is thus increasingly out
of date, although it does include many commonly used regi-
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