Biomedical Literature Search and Recommendation Tool: PubChase

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PubChase is a science literature search and recommendation tool, available online and through your mobile devices. PubChase uses the PubMed database to allow you to easily search and browse through paper abstracts and to bookmark them to a personal PubChase library. Unlike other scientific search engines, PubChase generates recommendations based on the articles in your library, adapting rapidly to your changing interests.

You can access PubChase, as well as other mobile resources, by visiting the MSK Library’s Mobile Resources LibGuide.

Patients’ Own Immune Systems Can Be Trained to Kill Cancer and more…

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  • Recent studies have shown that patients’ own immune systems can be harnessed to kill cancer.  A genetic engineering procedure has shown success using the body’s immune system in the fight against B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia, an aggressive blood cancer.  Researchers at MSK and at the University of Pennsylvania have been trying to train immune cells to recognize leukemia cells and kill them.   Dr. Renier Brentjens of MSK, one of the senior researchers, reported that 14 of 16 patients who received the special cell therapy achieved a “complete remission.”
  • Renal cell carcinoma survival is negatively affected by smoking.  Dr. Behfar Ehdaie of MSK studied the effect of smoking on cancer specific survival in 1,625 patients suffering from clear cell renal cell carcinoma, looking at data collected between 1995 and 2012.  The results did not reach statistical significance but indicated an adverse effect from smoking. Continue reading →