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The MPIP Glossifier
The glossifier is a tool to help you understand medical articles you find on the web. To use it, simply type the URL of the article you wish to "glossify" in the box provided. The article will appear in your browser with all the words that are in our medical dictionary hyperlinked to their definition. Click here for an example article.
 
The MPIP Staging Calculator
Determine your AJCC staging classification and NCI/PDQ TNF classification from your pathology data.
 
The MPIP Prognostic Calculator
Estimate risk of progression according to a published model.
 
The MPIP Medical Dictionary
5000 words with cross links. You can also try Medscape's Medical Dictionary
 
The MPIP Searchable Research Abstracts Database
Search the Nation Medical Library's PubMed database through a filter that returns only those abstracts of immediate interest to MM patients and physicians.
 
Therapy of Melanoma Reports
Review the NCI's monthly reports on medical advances in the treatment of melanoma.


Other Services
Look up Chemotherapy Drugs
Online Pharmacology
Calculate your personal melanoma risk profile For non-patients. From the American Academy of Dermatologists.
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Medscape's Medical Dictionary

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