Online Resources

Following are links to general cancer web sites, myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) web sites, and specific articles that you and your patients might find useful.

• American Cancer Society web site, http://www.cancer.org.
• American Cancer Society web site, Overview: Myelodysplastic Syndrome, http://www.cancer.org/docroot/CRI/CRI_2_1x.asp?rnav=criov&dt=65.
• American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation web site, http://www.asbmt.org/.
• Aplastic Anemia & MDS International Foundation web site, http://www.aamds.org/.
• Blood and Marrow Transplant Information Network web site, http://www.bmtinfonet.org/.
• CancerConsultants.com web site, http://www.cancerconsultants.com/.
• Clinicaltrials.gov web site, http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/.
• The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society web site, http://www.lls.org/hm_lls.
• The Myelodysplastic Syndromes Foundation web site, http://www.mds-foundation.org/.
• National Cancer Institute web site, http://www.nci.nih.gov.
• National Foundation for Cancer Research web site, http://www.nfcr.org/.
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration Oncology Tools web site, http://www.fda.gov/cder/cancer.
• American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) web site, http://www.asco.org/.
• American Society of Hematology (ASH) web site, http://www.hematology.org/.

For additional resources, please view our Contact an EISAI Representative page or learn more about DACOGEN for the treatment of Myelodysplastic Syndromes.

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