hematology/ oncology references

[rl123]

our oncology clinical specialist just went out on maternity leave, and I've been tasked with covering her. It's mostly administrative work (P&T, subcommittees), but when a patient-specific issue (ADR, nonformulary eval) comes up, I'm 100% out of my element. My PGY1 had 0 oncology experience, and I practice in a different area altogether now. No daily rounding/ outpatient counseling is expected of me as of now.

for any oncology pharmacists out there- any good references/quick reviews you can point me towards (oncology or hematology- both disease state reviews and therapeutics)? when I encountered my first issue this past week, it pretty much was all Uptodate articles. Thanks in advance

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[flagyladams]

NCCN guidelines are the holy grail in oncology

 

[k41y17]

My favorite drug book reference is the Physicians Cancer Chemotherapy Drug Manual. It has a few pages per drug with everything important including ADEs, therapy considerations, DDIs all listed in order of likelihood if I remember correctly. Also a bit on pharmacology.

For patient counseling info I use chemocare (com)

For regimens, NCCN is definitely the way to go. A mostly reliable second best reference is hemonc (org) but I always double checked anything found on there because I’m not sure how well-sourced it is. It’s fast though and is styled like Wikipedia so it’s easier to navigate than NCCN.

Full disclosure, I am not a heme-onc pharmacist but did have several oncology rotations and use the above while staffing. Also I apparently can’t post links here, so sorry about the weird formatting.