New to Collection: Pocket Oncology by MSK Doctors

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Pocket Oncology, edited by MSK’s Dr. Alexander Drilon of the Thoracic Oncology Service and Dr. Michael Postow of the Melanoma-Sarcoma Oncology Service, has recently been added to the Library’s collection! Dr. Lee Krug of the Thoracic Oncology Service served as an advisor and a number of doctors from MSK collaborated on sections of the text.

Pocket Oncology is a simple, yet comprehensive, review of basic principles of cancer management. Prepared in the style and format of books in the popular Pocket Notebook series, Pocket Oncology is intended as a quick reference presented in easy to read bulleted text, and using diagrams and charts where appropriate. Each oncologic disease is presented on two facing pages that review initial clinical presentation, pathophysiology, staging, current standard of care treatments, and active areas of current research. The content of the book has been written by medical oncology fellows – mostly from MSK – and each disease entity has been authoritatively reviewed by an oncologist with specific expertise in each subspecialty of oncology.

This resource can be accessed through Tri-Cat, the library catalog.

23 Things MSK Challenge: April Solutions

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For those of you participating in the 23 Things MSK Challenge, we hope you were able to successfully complete the tasks for this month. If you had any trouble, the solutions are posted below.

Thing 5

Here are instructions for the JANE task:

  1. Enter JANE.
  2. Type in Wernicke’s encephalopathy into the empty text box and click on the button to Find journals.
  3. You’ll find the 5 most relevant journals to your search query are The neuroradiology journal, Orvosi hetilap, Case reports in oncology, Annals of emergency medicine, and the Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia. However, you might also want to consider which journals will have the most research impact. If you order the results by the Article Influence score (derived from the Eigenfactor score—similar to an impact factor), the top 5 journals would be Lancet neurology, Brain: a journal of neurology, Journal of general internal medicine, Annals of emergency medicine, and AJR. American journal of Roentgenology.

You might be interested to know that we offer a workshop Tools for Authors, which covers similar tools.

Thing 6

To look up how many times the article “Quality of life among breast cancer patients with lymphedema: a systematic review of patient-reported outcome instruments and outcomes” has been cited, see the instructions below.

  1. Enter Scopus.
  2. Plug the title in quotes in the search field next to Article Title, Abstract, Keywords.
  3. Click the search button (the blue button with a magnifying glass on it).
  4. Look at the Cited By column in the right for the article you retrieve. It should list 4 citations. You can click on the number 4 to see which articles cited the article.
  5. Enter Web of Science.
  6. Plug the title in quotes in the search field next to Topic.
  7. Click the blue Search button.
  8. Take a look at the Times Cited column on the right- you should see 2 citations listed. Click on the number two to see the articles that cited the article.

If you are interested in more strategies for finding articles, consider taking the workshop One Good Article Leads to Another.

For any questions you might have, don’t hesitate to email Reference at asklibrarian@mskcc.org , or call us at 212-639-7439.