Did You Know? October is National Medical Librarians Month!

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Join us in celebration and raising awareness of the significant role our health information professionals (AKA) librarians contribute to research and medical activities. Check out the Memorial Sloan Kettering Library team who provide evidence-based information to our physicians, nurses, pharmacists, students, and other healthcare professionals across the Center and all our MSK locations. They also support patients and their caregivers when they need reliable cancer information.

This year’s theme, “Yes, we do that!” opens the door and invites our user community to reach out and discover what we do and how we can support their daily work.

If you are curious about how the MSK library staff can support you, feel free to contact me. You can also visit the MSK Library website and start exploring our digital collections, resources, and the services available to you.


Need help finding that crucial piece?

Donna Gibson, Director, Library Services
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New eBook – Approaching Global Oncology : The Win-Win Model

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This eBook on global oncology explores the gap between the required and the available cancer care in the world that has been widened in the last decade for the majority of cancer patients. It explores a need for global approaches and campaigns for the scientific exploration of avenues to increase affordability of better value cancer treatment for millions of cancer patients in the world.

Approaching Global Oncology: The Win-Win Model covers the win-win approaches for global oncology as an important component of global health, the benefits for institutions for participation in global health, examples of win-win initiatives for global oncology, and perspectives from renowned international experts, editors of high impact international journals and authors, governments, youth advocates/residents, industry, diaspora, and others looking to ‘win’ in global oncology and health.

Global Access to Cancer Research and Treatment

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Bob Li, MD, PhD, MPH

Bob Li, MD, PhD, MPH. Photo by Richard DeWitt.

A Forbes profile of MSK’s Dr. Bob Li chronicles his path from China to Australia to the United States. At MSK, he works as a Thoracic Oncologist and the Physician Ambassador to China and Asia-Pacific, Bobst International Center.

In the article, Dr. Li emphasizes the need for more global coordination and inclusivity in cancer research and care. As he says, “We’re not going to find the cure for cancer unless we solve this equity question and this access question.”

Dr. Li notes that only 5% of patients globally enroll in clinical trials, which contributes to the “process from discovery in the lab to breakthrough and saving lives in human beings [taking] about 10-plus years.”

Learn more from the Harvard Business Review article co-written by Dr. Li last year, “We Need a Global System for Testing and Approving Cancer Treatments.”