Determining accurate trends and prognoses for various cancer types can be a daunting and stressful task. The CancerMath.net tool helps clinicians to examine therapy options, outcomes ratios, and predictive survival rates for different cancer types: including breast, melanoma, and renal cell carcinoma.

Users choose a calculator under the specific cancer they are investigating. After the fields within the calculators are populated, CancerMath.net generates a graph or other visual to demonstrate information about what was entered. CancerMath.net is an online tool meant for the network of oncology medical professionals which was developed by the Laboratory for Quantitative Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. CancerMath.net is not intended for patient use or to substitute a physician’s professional opinion. It is merely a helpful resource for determining the best possible treatment options and outcomes for personalized patient care based on mathematical calculations.

This resource can be found on the Library’s Reference Resources LibGuide. This webpage also contains other helpful online tools for researchers and clinicians broken down into categories including general science, acronyms/abbreviations, grammar and style manuals, other library catalogs, dictionaries/encyclopedias, and government health databases.

Looking for alternate ways of organizing your references and PDFs? Want to be able to automatically export citations from Google Scholar and PubMed? ReadCube, one of the newest bibliographic management tools to hit the scene offers enhanced PDF viewing, editing, sharing, and importing/exporting.

ReadCube features an easy PDF viewing interface where users can highlight and take notes on articles within the application. Adding articles as Favorites is another useful function of ReadCube that other citation management tools lack. Searching PubMed and Google Scholar from inside ReadCube allows users to easily view reference abstracts, download PDFs instantly, and export citations to EndNote and RefWorks. ReadCube is setup with the MSK proxy URL meaning it recognizes what the Library subscribes to electronically for quick and easy access to full text content.

Give ReadCube a try by downloading the resource and viewing the different video tutorials containing helpful tips, tricks, and useful features. For more information on ReadCube and other bibliographic management tools, our Reference Librarians are knowledgeable on current and upcoming resources that may help to better manage your lists of article references.

*Important information regarding PubMed enhancements for MSK staff

PubReader offers a handy new tool for easier access and reading of publicly available articles in PubMed Central (PMC). PubReader was designed for accessibility on small screen-devices and tablets, but is functional on your desktop monitor as well.

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