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Disease Management: Cancer

NCI: Cancer Topics

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ASCO: American Society of Clinical Oncology

• Clinical Practice Guidelines on treatment and care of different cancer diseases

Cancercare
CancerCare is a national non-profit organization that provides free professional support services to anyone affected by cancer.

ASTRO: American Society for Radiation Oncology

• Advancing the practice of radiation oncology
  • New Guideline! ASTRO Palliative Radiotherapy for Bone Metastases: An ASTRO Evidence-Based Guideline. Lutz S, Berk L, Chang E et al. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2011 Mar 15;79(4):965-76. Epub 2011 Jan 27. PMID: 21277118 (Download PDF 108 KB with Permission from Elsevier)
    Radiotherapy is a successful and time efficient method by which to palliate pain and/or prevent the morbidity of bone metastases. This Guideline reviews the available data to define its proper use and provide consensus views concerning contemporary controversies or unanswered questions that warrant prospective trial evaluation

ESMO: European Society for Medical Oncology

• Clinical Recommendations – Guidelines for your daily practice in oncology and supportive care

IAEA PACT: International Atomic Energy Agency Program of Action for Cancer Therapy

• Documents on cancer control and treatment using radiation therapy

THE LANCET Oncology
Breast-cancer early detection in low-income and middle-income countries: do what you can versus one size fits all, by Joe Hartford, Ph.D.

Fast Facts

• #13: Determining Prognosis In Advanced Cancer
• #14: Palliative Chemotherapy
• #62: Preventing Neurologic Deficits: Early Diagnosis of Epidural Metastases
• #66: Radiation For Palliation-Part 1
• #67: Radiation For Palliation-Part 2
• #99: Chemotherapy: Response And Survival Data
• #116: Radiopharmaceuticals For Painful Osseous Metastases
• #135: Neoplastic Meningitis
• #137: Carcinoid Syndrome
• #151: Hypercalcemia of Malignancy
• #197: Chemotherapy Associated Peripheral Neuropathy

Palliative Care Tips From palliative.org

• Hypercalcemia of Malignancy (20 KB)
• Radiotherapy in Palliative Care: Bone Metastasis & the RAPRP (189 KB)
• Radiotherapy in Palliative Care: Brain Metastasis (165 KB)
• Radiotherapy in Palliative Care: FAQ's on Radiotherapy (165 KB)
• Radiotherapy in Palliative Care: Thoracic Radiotherapy for Lung Cancer (127 KB)

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