Useful Resources


The following resources can be used as a source of information on the disease processes, therapeutic interventions and pharmaceutical aspects involved in providing care for patients with cancer.


CPPE package


Level One
Please note these are CPPE documents and have been developed for pharmacists and pharmacy technicians with primary reference to practice in England. If those practising in other countries wish to use them please make sure you follow any country specific guidance.

In order to obtain your own copy you need to register with the site and search the on-line portfolio for "Cancer: in relation to pharmacy practice." under cancer and immunology.

Textbooks

Cancer Management: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Richard Pazdur, Lawrence R. Coia, William J. Hoskins, Lawrence D. Wagman
Available FREE ONLINE

Oxford Handbook of Oncology, Second Edition
Cassidy, Jim; Bissett, Donald; Spence, Roy A.J.; Payne, Miranda
Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198567871

Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology
Vincent T. DeVita, Samuel Hellman, and Steven A. Rosenberg
2004 Lippincott Williams and Wilkins ISBN: 0781744504

Everyone's Guide To Cancer Therapy
Malin Dollinger, Margaret Tempero, Ernest Rosenbaum, Sean Mulvihill
4th Edition Andrews McMeel Publishing ISBN: 0740718568

Cancer and Its Management
Robert L. Souhami and Jeffrey S. Tobias
5th Edition Blackwell Publishing ISBN: 1405126361

Hematology / Oncology secrets
Marie E Wood
3rd Edition 2003 Hanley & Belfus Inc. ISBN: 1560535164

The Cytotoxics Handbook
Michael Allwood, Patricia Wright, and Andrew Stanley
2001 Radcliffe Medical Press Ltd ISBN: 1-85775-504-9

Concepts in Oncology Therapeutics
Rebecca S. Finley and Carol McManus Balmer
3rd edition 2007 ASHP ISBN: 1585280569 (?publication date Oct 2007)

Practical Chemotherapy: A Multidisciplinary Guide
Maxwell Summerhayes and Susanna Daniels
2003 Radcliffe Medical Press Ltd ISBN: 1857759656

Handbook of Cancer Chemotherapy
Roland Skeel and Jonathan Pine
6th edition 2003 Lippincott Williams and Wilkins ISBN: 0781736293

The Cancer Chemotherapy Handbook
David S. Fischer
2003 Mosby ISBN: 0323018904

The Royal Marsden Hospital Handbook of Cancer Chemotherapy: A Guide for the Mulitdisciplinary Team
Churchill Livingstone 2005 ISBN: 0443071012

Facts & Comparisons Cancer Chemotherapy Manual
Wolters Kluwer ISBN 1-57439-084-8

Drug Information Handbook for Oncology
Dominic A Solimando
Lexi-Comp 5th Edition ISBN 1-59195-117-8

Clinical Oncology.
Lenhard, Osteen & Gansler
Blackwell 2001 ISBN 0944 235 158

Treatment of Cancer
Price, Sikora & Illidge
Arnold. London. 5th edition ISBN 034 09 12219

The Washington Manual of Oncology
Govindan Ramaswammy
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins 2002 ISBN 078 173 0309

Downloads

 

C-Tools: a PDA tool that will provide you with instant access to the most recent cancer information, available free of charge to anyone in the health care field on the American Cancer Society Website

 

Archimedes: Clinical calculators for PC or PDA available on the Skyscape Website

 

The Washington Manual of Oncology available to buy as a download on the Skyscape website

 

New Leadership Resources available free on Macmillan Learn Zone: Leadership and Management Toolbox At the start of June we launched a new Leadership and Management Toolbox on the Macmillan Learn Zone (http://learnzone.macmillan.org.uk). The Toolbox brings together the best leadership and management thinking in the world, in a range of different media, from Harvard Business School, Ashridge Business School and 50 Lessons.

All of these new materials are freely available to registered users of Learn Zone and can be accessed by via this link ... http://learnzone.macmillan.org.uk/course/view.php?id=71


Websites

 

Your local cancer network! –see the Department of Health website for a full list www.dh.gov.uk

Adjuvant! Online www.adjuvantonline.com

American Cancer Society www.cancer.org

American Society of Clinical Oncology www.asco.org

BC Cancer Agency www.bccancer.bc.ca

British Committee for Standards in Haematology www.bcshguidelines.com 

Cancerbackup www.cancerbackup.org.uk

Cancer Research UK www.cancerresearch.org.uk

CE City www.cecity.com

CPPE www.cppe.manchester.ac.uk

Idis www.idis.co.uk

Medscape www.medscape.com

National Cancer Research Network www.ncrn.org.uk

Skyscape www.skyscape.com

Idis www.idis.co.uk

Medscape www.medscape.com

National Cancer Research Network www.ncrn.org.uk

Skyscape www.skyscape.com

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