New eBook – Rodak’s Hematology: Clinical Principles and Applications

Rodak’s Hematology: Clinical Principles and Applications, 6th Edition uses nearly 700 full-color photomicrographs to help you understand the essentials of hematology. This new edition shows how to identify cells, simplifies hemostasis and thrombosis concepts, and covers normal hematopoiesis through diseases of erythroid, myeloid, lymphoid, and megakaryocytic origins. This text also covers key topics including working in a hematology lab; complementary testing areas such as flow cytometry, cytogenetics, and molecular diagnostics; the parts and functions of the cell; and laboratory testing of blood cells and body fluid cells.

New Nursing eBook: 2020-2021 Oncology Nursing Drug Handbook

A new nursing eBook has been added to the Library collection, entitled the 2020-2021 Oncology Nursing Drug Handbook. This text, specifically for nurses caring for patients with cancer, details drug therapy in terms of the nursing process: nursing diagnoses, etiologies of toxicities, and key points for nursing assessment, intervention, and evaluation.

Major topics and information include effective symptom management, patient education, chemotherapy administration, cellular communication pathways disrupted by cancer, immunotherapy, new drugs and their indications, and updated indications and side effects for recently FDA approved drugs.

New eBook – Oncology Clinical Trials: Successful Design, Conduct, and Analysis

Oncology Clinical Trials: Successful Design, Conduct, and Analysis has been added to the Library’s collection. This second edition contains designs and methods of conducting and analyzing cancer clinical trials, including trials “investigating the safety and efficacy of targeted therapies, immunotherapies, and combination therapies as well as novel radiation therapy modalities.”

This text includes a background and introduction to oncology clinical trials, designing trials, conducting trials, analyzing the results of clinical trials, and special considerations in oncology clinical trials.