New Books Added to the Library’s Collections

The Library has recently added several books to our collections, including:

Access device guidelines: recommendations for nursing practice and education / editor, Dawn Camp-Sorrell ; authors, Diane G. Cope … [et al.].

Breast cancer nursing: care and management / edited by Victoria Harmer.

GISTs: gastrointestinal stromal tumors / Elisabetta de Lutio di Castelguidone, Antonella Messina, editors.

Holland-Frei cancer Medicine / editors, Donald W. Kufe … [et al.] (Also available online).

Medical-surgical nursing: critical thinking in patient care / Priscilla LeMone, Karen Burke, Gerene Bauldoff.

Magnet resource toolkit: recognizing nursing excellence / American Nurses Credentialing Center (Includes CD-ROM).

Medical-surgical nursing : assessment and management of clinical problems / Sharon L. Lewis … [et al.].

The nurse’s social media advantage: how making connections and sharing ideas can enhance your nursing practice / Robert Fraser.

Surgery of the breast: principles and art / editor, Scott L. Spear ; associate editors, shawna C. Willey … [et al.].

The books are currently located at the Library’s New Book Shelf. To view the detailed records of the books, click on the links above, or look them up using Tri-Cat, the library catalog.

Blog Buzz: June 6 – June 10

Just some of this week’s excitement…

MSKCC in the News: May 14 – June 10

  • MSKCC’s Dr. Dennis Chi was recently interviewed on a WCBS news piece about the successful results of a patient treated with modified radical abdominal trachelectomy for cervical cancer, which successfully preserved her fertility.
  • A recent New York Times op-ed entitled, Why Medical School Should Be Free, was co-authored by MSKCC’s Peter B. Bach.
  • In a BBC News article covering the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago, clinicians from MSKCC reported on two separate studies carried out at Sloan-Kettering in which two new drugs had improved survival rates of patients with inoperable melanoma, the deadliest forms of skin cancer.