Genetech Website

A great website that allows you to search any cancer by type, provides information on clinical trials and the latest news on cancer. Also available are multimedia educational videos and conference downloads.
http://www.biooncology.com/index.html

Getting Personal The Shifting Landscape of Cancer Care

"Getting Personal: The Shifting Landscape of Cancer Care explores the evolving role of personalized medicine in how we look at cancer diagnosis and treatment. Personalized medicine uses information about a person's genes and proteins, called biomarkers, to prevent, diagnose and treat disease¹. Through personal patient stories, the program hopes to provide the cancer community with a resource to help them have more informed conversations about personalized medicine in oncology."
Watch at the following link:
http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid943071093001

NCCN No Longer Requires Imaging for Stage IIa Melanoma Patients

"March 14, 2011 (Hollywood, Florida) — The 2011 updated National Comprehensive Cancer Center (NCCN) guidelines for melanoma say that routine imaging is no longer required for stage IIa melanoma patients who have negative lymph nodes.
"We do not recommend a [computed tomography] scan for these patients. They don't have to have it. We have decided that there is no compromise in their care," committee chair Daniel G. Coit, MD, professor of medicine at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, told Medscape Medical News here at the NCCN 16th Annual Conference.
"It's a category 2a recommendation, meaning that there was general agreement among the committee but very little data in the form of prospective randomized trials."
Stage IIa melanoma patients are those with melanomas between 2 and 4 mm thick and no lymph node involvement."
--Medscape

Chart to convert Gy to cGy in Radiation Treatment

http://www.aqua-calc.com/convert/radiation-absorbed-dose/gray-to-centigray

Environment and Breast Cancer

This website showcases a project looking into the environment and the development of breast cancer:
http://erbc.vassar.edu/

Advance Magazine

Here is a wonderful article on the new Class of Case requirements. Included in the article is a link to click on that will give you a quick reference diagram to follow when figuring out class of case:
http://health-information.advanceweb.com/Columns/Registry-Perspectives/A-Simple-Paradigm-for-Assigning-Class-of-Case.aspx

Cancer Treatment Website

This website is a wonderful resource for basic understanding of various types of cancer, cancer staging, and treatment. It also contains the latest news highlights concerning cancer.
http://www.cancertreatment.net/