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Cancer Research News: March 30 – April 8

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Selected articles on cancer research for this time period include:

  • Rates of death in the United States from all cancers for men and women continued to decline between 2003 and 2007, the most recent reporting period available, according to the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer.
  • From US Today, new research suggests examining cells from a woman’s breast milk may help evaluate future breast health. 
  • MIT cancer biologists have identified a genetic change that makes lung tumors more likely to spread to other parts of the body.
  • A team from the Washington University School of Medicine and the Siteman Cancer Center, St. Louis, has sequenced whole genomes of tumors from 50 women with luminal (ER and/or PR positive) HER2 negative breast cancer. In discussing the study, Dr. Ellis commented that “while analyses of whole genome expression allow us to further categorize breast tumors into subtypes of clinical importance, we still do not have a good understanding of the cancer biology behind many of the identified gene sets.”

By the Numbers: Are Usage Statistics the Only Way to Measure a Library’s Value?

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While reviewing our Library metrics for 2010 and comparing these numbers with past years, I started to reflect about whether or not collecting quantitative data about our services, resources use, and our Library community can paint the full picture of our contributions to the Center. Collecting statistics is certainly a fact of effective library management and helps determine resources most used.

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First Place: Highly Cited MSK Publication from 2010

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Drum roll please!  Based on a SCOPUS search conducted in late January 2011, looking for the top 15 highly cited MSK Publications, the following reference was cited 71 times and is ranked in first place. View the journal or search for the specific reference at the journal’s home page by clicking on the journal title below. For additional information about cited reference searching, contact Reference Services.

  • Beroukhim R , Mermel CH , Porter D, Wei G, Raychaudhuri S , Donovan J, Barretina J, Boehm JS , Dobson J, Urashima M, McHenry KT, Pinchback RM, Ligon AH , Cho Y-J, Haery L, Greulich H, Reich M, Winckler W, Lawrence MS, Weir BA, Tanaka KE, Chiang DY, Bass AJ, Loo A, Hoffman C, Prensner J, Liefeld T, Gao Q, Yecies D, Signoretti S, Maher E, Kaye FJ, Sasaki H, Tepper JE, Fletcher J, Tabernero J, Baselga J, Tsao M-S, Demichelis F, Rubin MA, Janne PA, Daly MJ , Nucera C, Levine RL, Ebert BL, Gabrie S, Rustgi AK, Antonescu CR, Ladanyi M, Letai A, Garraway LA, Loda M, Beer DG, True LD, Okamoto A, Pomeroy SL, Singer S, Golub TR, Lander ES, Getz G, Sellers WR, Meyerson M.   The landscape of somatic copy-number alteration across human cancers.  Nature. 2010;463(7283):899-905.