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Specialties

Medical Oncology

Oncologic emergencies and the medicine of malignancy.

Presentations

Unintentional weight lossBack pain with red flags

Ward cases

Fever on day ten

A 59-year-old mid-chemotherapy phones the helpline about a temperature and is told to come in now.

Thirsty, confused, constipated

A 67-year-old's family bring her in because she has stopped making sense and cannot stop drinking water.

Interpretation drills

LabsThe lymphoma patient after the first cycle

Illness scripts

Febrile neutropeniaHypercalcemia of malignancy

Tools & pathways

AlgorithmHypercalcemia

From the library

Axial contrast CT of the abdomen showing multiple low density liver metastases
Multiple low density lesions through both lobes of the liver on contrast CT: metastases until proven otherwise. The picture behind a cholestatic liver panel with weight loss.James Heilman, MD, via Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Peripheral blood smear field with red cells and a segmented neutrophil
A second smear field: red cells and a segmented neutrophil.BCCD blood cell dataset (Shenggan) · MIT · source