ClinicalTrials.gov
This National Library of Medicine site provides regularly updated information about federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers.
CenterWatch
This commercial site contains a listing of more than 41,000 industry and government-sponsored clinical trials (not all specific to oncology), as well as new drug therapies recently approved by the FDA.
Pancreatica.org
A large database of pancreatic cancer clinical trials, composed of almost 370 trials in more than 1,000 locations throughout the world. The site also has updated news and archives on this topic.
Practice Guidelines and Treatment Overviews
American Society of Clinical Oncology Practice Guidelines
Guidelines can address specific clinical situations (disease-oriented) or use of approved medical products, procedures, or tests (modality-oriented). Using the best available evidence, ASCO's expert panels identify and develop practice recommendations for specific areas of cancer care that would benefit from the availability of practice guidelines.
PDQ (Physician's Desk Query)
National Cancer Institute's comprehensive cancer database. It contains: peer-reviewed summaries on cancer treatment, screening, prevention, genetics, supportive care and complementary and alternative medicine; a registry of more than 4,000 open and 15,000 closed cancer clinical trials from around the world; and directories of physicians, professionals who provide genetics services and organizations that provide cancer care.
PubMed: Cancer Subset Limits hotlink (below search screen) can be selected and Publication Types can be set to Practice Guideline. Key words can then be typed and search results will be MEDLINE journal citations identified as Practice Guidelines.
CAM-Cancer
The aims of CAM-Cancer project are to build a European authoritative network around CAM in cancer with an international panel of experts in CAM research and/or in cancer care with privileged contacts with cancer organizations. The project's main achievement will be to prepare and disseminate suitable evidence-based information for health professionals in order to help them to inform their patients.
Office of Cancer Complementary & Alternative Medicine
This National Cancer Institute unit's goal is to increase the amount of high-quality cancer research and information about the use of complementary and alternative modalities.
Sloan Kettering - About Herbs, Botanicals, and Other Products
This site provides objective information for oncologists and healthcare professionals, including a clinical summary for each agent and details about constituents, adverse effects, interactions and potential benefits or problems. Evaluations of alternative or unproved cancer therapies, as well as products for sexual dysfunction, are included.
Unconventional Therapies
British Columbia Cancer Agency maintains this Web site. The pages are designed to provide objective information for patients and their families, relating to alternative and complementary therapies. Most of the information consists of direct quotations from peer-reviewed books and journal literature.
Drugs & Biologics
FDA Approved Oncology Drugs
The site contains the list of FDA-approved oncology drugs and regulatory information. Also lists assessment tools for staging, performance status, toxicity, and human and animal dosage calculators.
Approved Drug Products With Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations (Electronic Orange Book)
The FDA produces this book, which contains products that have been approved under section 505 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. It can be
searched by active ingredient, proprietary name, or application holder.
NCI Drug Dictionary
The site contains technical definitions and synonyms for more than 500 agents that are being used in the treatment of patients with cancer or cancer-related conditions.
RxList
This commercial site can be searched by drug name, plus Advanced Search options for keyword, interaction, or side effects.
Cancer Care Ontario Drug Formulary
CCO Drug Formulary is an online Cancer Drug and Regimen information only Web site, reflecting the choices of chemotherapy used across Ontario. Resources include monographs for healthcare professionals, drug regimens by disease site and for supportive care and symptom control / plus ancillary information.
American Cancer Society
The ACS site has information for both healthcare professionals and patients that includes disease overviews, treatment options, prevention and coping strategies, and news.
American College of Surgeons - Commission on Cancer
Established by the American College of Surgeons (ACoS) in 1922, the multi-disciplinary Commission on Cancer (CoC) sets standards for quality multidisciplinary cancer care delivered primarily in hospital settings; surveys hospitals to assess compliance with those standards; collects standardized and quality data from approved hospitals to measure treatment patterns and outcomes; and uses the data to evaluate hospital provider performance and develop effective educational interventions to improve cancer care outcomes at the national and local level.
American Society of Clinical Oncology
ASCO membership is composed of clinical oncologists from all oncology disciplines and sub-specialties. The Web site has information for practice guidelines, policy statements, career development and news.
Association of Community Cancer Centers
The ACCC is here to help oncology professionals adapt to the complex challenges of program management, cuts in reimbursement, hospital consolidation and mergers, and legislation and regulations that threaten to compromise the delivery of quality cancer care.
FDA Oncology Tools
This site contains a variety of information related to cancer and approved cancer drug therapies. Rather than grouping all drug product information together, this web page is a first effort at pulling together information by disease category, which will make this information easier to find and use.
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)
The IARC is involved in both epidemiological and laboratory research and disseminates scientific information through publications, meetings, course, and fellowships.
International Union Against Cancer
The world's largest independent, non-profit, non-governmental association of cancer-fighting organizations, UICC brings together a wide range of organizations, including voluntary cancer societies, research and treatment centres, public health authorities, patient support networks and advocacy groups.
National Cancer Institute
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). NCI coordinates the National Cancer Program, which conducts and supports research, training and health information dissemination.
NCI Research Resources page has more than100 key resources in categories such as family registries, genomics, scientific computing and specimen resources.
Oncolink
OncoLink was founded in 1994 by University of Pennsylvania cancer specialists with a mission to help cancer patients, families, health care professionals and the general public get accurate cancer-related information at no charge. OncoLink contains comprehensive information about specific types of cancer, updates on cancer treatments and news about research advances.
Oncology Nursing Society
The Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) is a professional organization of more than 32,000 registered nurses and other healthcare providers dedicated to excellence in patient
care, education, research and administration in oncology nursing.
Society of Surgical Oncology
The mission of the Society of Surgical Oncology is to ensure that all cancer patients receive the highest quality comprehensive, multimodal cancer care. The society will accomplish this by providing dynamic leadership and a substantial commitment to excellence in the broad specialty of surgery and surgical oncology.
National Comprehensive Cancer Network
This not-for-profit alliance of 20 of the world's leading cancer centers, is dedicated to improving the quality and effectiveness of care provided to patients with cancer. Through the leadership and expertise of clinical professionals at NCCN Member Institutions, NCCN develops resources that present valuable information to the numerous stakeholders in the health care delivery system.
Statistics & Epidemiology
SEER
The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program, maintained at National Cancer Institute, is an authoritative source of information on cancer incidence and survival in the United States.
NCI Fact Book, 2005
This annual publication has incident and mortality rates, plus information about NCI funding and organizational structure.
National Cancer Data Base (NCDB)
NCDB is a nationwide, facility-based, oncology data set that captures 75% of all newly diagnosed cancer cases in the United States annually. Data collected include patient characteristics, tumor staging and histology characteristics, type of first course treatment administered, disease recurrence, and survival information. The site is the result of a partnership between American College of Surgeons and National Cancer Society.
CANCERMondial
This Web site provides access to information on the occurrence of cancer world-wide; compiled by the Descriptive Epidemiology Group(DEP) of International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC).
National Center for Health Statistics: Cancer
This page, from a CDC agency, has links to a variety of government reports containing cancer information, usually within the context of a wider subject area. Note: When searching the full text of the reports, the term "neoplasms" often brings more results than using the term "cancer."
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