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New eBook: Cancer Rehabilitation : Principles and Practice

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The 3rd edition of Cancer Rehabilitation : Principles and Practice is now available via the library. This text is a comprehensive overview of the “principles of cancer care and best practices for restoring function and quality of life to cancer survivors.”

Topics include medical complications of cancer that inform rehabilitation decisions and strategies, pain assessment and management, neuromuscular and skeletal dysfunction, and neurologic and general rehabilitation issues.

This text includes a number of contributors from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. 

New eBook: Targeted Radiopharmaceuticals and Imaging: Development Challenges and Opportunities

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The MSK library has acquired a new eBook from the Royal Society of Chemistry, Targeted Radiopharmaceuticals and Imaging: Development Challenges and Opportunities. 

Targeted Radiopharmaceutical Therapy is an emerging technique for treating a number of cancers, with a number of drugs in clinical development. This publication offers a “comprehensive perspective on the different technologies and addresses the critical challenges in developing and commercializing radiopharmaceuticals.” 

Various topics include the development and commercialization of radiopharmaceuticals targeted towards specific cancers, dosimetry methods, chelator design, and novel targets in oncology.

New eBook: The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Cardiothoracic Surgery E-Book

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MSKCC now has an institutional subscription to two titles in the The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Pearson’s General Thoracic Surgery and Adult and Pediatric Cardiac. These two titles are part of the STS Cardiothoracic Surgery eBook. 

The STS Cardiothoracic Surgery E-Book is an authoritative resource for cardiothoracic surgical information. It includes 300 interactive chapters in all main cardiothoracic surgery domains, with all-new hand-drawn medical illustrations, photographs, and surgical videos. Pearson’s General Thoracic Surgery