Determining accurate trends and prognoses for various cancer types can be a daunting and stressful task. The CancerMath.net tool helps clinicians to examine therapy options, outcomes ratios, and predictive survival rates for different cancer types: including breast, melanoma, and renal cell carcinoma.

Users choose a calculator under the specific cancer they are investigating. After the fields within the calculators are populated, CancerMath.net generates a graph or other visual to demonstrate information about what was entered. CancerMath.net is an online tool meant for the network of oncology medical professionals which was developed by the Laboratory for Quantitative Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. CancerMath.net is not intended for patient use or to substitute a physician’s professional opinion. It is merely a helpful resource for determining the best possible treatment options and outcomes for personalized patient care based on mathematical calculations.

This resource can be found on the Library’s Reference Resources LibGuide. This webpage also contains other helpful online tools for researchers and clinicians broken down into categories including general science, acronyms/abbreviations, grammar and style manuals, other library catalogs, dictionaries/encyclopedias, and government health databases.