Filed under: Give Us Your Feedback

Cancer research in the news:

• Dying Cancer Patient Visits to Emergency Departments Can Be Avoided A new study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) documents that in Ontario 40% of all cancer patients visit the emergency room during the last two weeks of life to receive care that could more effectively be provided by an organized network of palliative care providers.
• New Scientist reports that researchers at the University of California, San Diego have discovered an inflammatory mechanism that causes prostate cancer to become resistant to anti-androgens after a few years. (Nature, DOI: 10.1038/nature08782).
• New American Cancer Society guidelines for prostate cancer de-emphasize the importance of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing and instead encourage doctors and patients to think more about overall health and life expectancy to determine a course for testing and treatment of prostate cancer. MSNBC published a Q & A with the American Cancer Society clarifying the new guidelines.
• Dana Jennings, a prostate cancer survivor who blogs at The New York Times, wrote an essay on the emotional impact of a cancer diagnosis as well as survivorship.
• Melanoma survivors have a 28% higher chance of developing a subsequent cancer than what would be expected in the general population, reported the Associated Press. (DOI: 10.1001/archdermatol.2010.2)

Filed under: Cancer Research News

MedlinePlus now offers a new e-mail subscription service to make it easier for consumers to stay up-to-date on the health topics that matter to them.  With this new service, interested individuals can subscribe to any or all of the more than 800 topics on MedlinePlus, as well as a variety of other health-related e-mail lists. Read more »

Filed under: Tips & Tricks from Staff

This week’s resource highlight is the open access publisher BioMed Central (BMC). BMC publishes a variety of prestigious, peer-reviewed scientific and clinical titles. In addition, MSKCC is a supporting member of BioMed Central, which means that MSKCC authors get a 15% discount on author page fees when they publish in any BMC journal, including BMC Cancer, Breast Cancer Research, Cell Communication and Signalling, and World Journal of Surgical Oncology.

Filed under: Resource Highlights

This month, I want to take a moment to reflect and share our process for overseeing our eJournal collection.  As of March 2010, the Library maintains over 2, 200+ ejournals focused on the research and medical activities of the Center.  View the list of titles (click All located in the Browse by Title search box).  Read more »

Filed under: Director's Reflections

ScienceDirect and Scopus will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance for approximately 8.5 hours during the period from 10:30PM on Saturday, March 13 to 8:00AM on Sunday, March 14.

Filed under: Announcements