Tech Zone: ESMO Cancer Guidelines

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The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) is offering a new mobile app on clinical practice guidelines for cancer care. The free app is available for iPhone, iPad and Android, and is based on the ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines, published in Annals of Oncology.

The guidelines were developed, based on evidence-based medicine, to help patients and caregivers better understand cancer diagnosis and treatment options.
Each guideline provides incidence of disease, staging, diagnostic criteria, risk assessment, treatment options, and follow-up care. Users can download the recommendations to their devices, bookmark important sections, and share with others.

Download this and other apps by visiting the MSK Library’s Mobile Resources LibGuide.

Ixquick Added to the Library’s Collection

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The Library has recently added a metasearch engine, Ixquick to the Databases A-Z list on the Library Website. Ixquick is committed to protect the privacy of its user community by promising not to store user’s personal information. It does not collect IP addresses nor any search terms or phrases. It does not use any identifying cookies as well. The only information Ixquick records is an aggregate total of how many searches are performed on the website each day.

When you search with Ixquick search engine, you are searching many popular search engines simultaneously and anonymously. It ranks search results by a star system. An Ixquick result is awarded one star () for every search engine that chooses it as one of the ten best results for your search. So a five star () result means that five search engines agreed on the result. Phone numbers and addresses can be found via ixquick’s International Phone directory and the web can be searched in 18 different languages.

Users can access Ixquick through MSKsearch on the Library’s Website or through the Library’s catalog, Tri-Cat.

Phrase Searching in PubMed

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If a concept consisting of more than one term is entered into PubMed, it will be searched for in the phrase index.  If it is not found, the program will use Automatic Term Mapping to process the search.  Each term in the phrase will be searched in all fields and combined, often resulting in some off-target records.  To focus the search specifically on the concept, it is possible to search for a phrase in PubMed using quotation marks, e.g. “kidney allograft.” Automatic Term Mapping will be bypassed and the exact phrase will be searched for in all fields. The retrieval will have fewer off-target records.

To access the indexed phrases, use the Advanced search builder show index list.  After selecting a search field, (Text  Word [tw] is recommended for subject searches), enter the beginning of a phrase and then click Show index list.