We’ve Added @JoVEJournal Cancer Research!

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JoVE Cancer Research illustrates experimental approaches in biomedical research and clinical practice aimed at understanding, detecting, treating and preventing cancer. The articles in the section demonstrate

  • methods to study the cellular and molecular mechanisms of cancer
  • animal models of cancer research
  • development of new therapies and diagnostics
  • tumor imaging
  • chemical and radiation treatments
  • surgical procedures, and
  • improvements in therapy.

JoVE Cancer Research video articles offer researchers and clinical practitioners an efficient way to learn the technologies and experimental methods in cancer research.

Want to publish with JoVE? Go here for information on submissions.

Discover JoVE Cancer Research in our eJournal A-Z listing or TriCat, our library catalog.

The Latest in Cervical Cancer, Breast Cancer and More…

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Surfing the web, I uncovered these news items worth sharing

  • A recent article in the New York Times reported on the wide disparity in death rates of cervical cancer between black women and white women. The full study has been published in the journal Cancer.
  • Doctors at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have successfully treated a 26 year old female patient diagnosed with brain cancer using the anti-malaria drug, chloroquine. Further discussion can be found in eLife.
  • A new multi-center study found that half of breast cancer patients experience at least one severe side effect from treatment. Side effects led to additional doctor’s appointments, trips to the emergency room, delays in treatment and reduced dosages.  The report was published in Cancer.
  • According to a recent study in PLoS Biology, wearable devices can serve as a health dashboard, monitoring health and sensing early signs of illness, likely even before the person wearing it does.
  • Researchers with The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Research Network have identified genomic features of cervical cancer that may help with targeted therapies for patients. More information is available on their website.

Doctoral Dissertations in CINAHL

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One of the big differences between the PubMed and CINAHL (Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health) databases is that PubMed indexes almost exclusively articles from scholarly journals, whereas CINAHL indexes a more varied range of document types. One often overlooked CINAHL content-type is Doctoral Dissertation.

Limiting to Publication Type = Doctoral Dissertation retrieves a search set of 22, 399+ records for doctoral dissertations, showing that dissertations are not an insignificant chunk of CINAHL’s content. Keep in mind, however, that these records contain merely citation information for the theses and not their full-text.

To obtain the full-text of dissertations, users can search Google Scholar (for a possible openly-available version of the dissertation deposited in an academic repository), request a copy of the dissertation via the library’s Document Delivery Service, or physically visit one of the MSK Library’s Tri-institutional partner libraries (WCMC) to access the thesis in question from the database Proquest Dissertations and Theses (full-text starting from 1997).

If you have any questions about identifying theses or obtaining their full-text, feel free to ASK US!