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New eBook – Approaching Global Oncology : The Win-Win Model

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This eBook on global oncology explores the gap between the required and the available cancer care in the world that has been widened in the last decade for the majority of cancer patients. It explores a need for global approaches and campaigns for the scientific exploration of avenues to increase affordability of better value cancer treatment for millions of cancer patients in the world.

Approaching Global Oncology: The Win-Win Model covers the win-win approaches for global oncology as an important component of global health, the benefits for institutions for participation in global health, examples of win-win initiatives for global oncology, and perspectives from renowned international experts, editors of high impact international journals and authors, governments, youth advocates/residents, industry, diaspora, and others looking to ‘win’ in global oncology and health.

New Resource: The Review of Natural Products (2023).

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The updated 2023 Natural Products database includes more than 400 monographs and is updated monthly. Each monograph features scientific names, common names, botany or source, history, chemistry, uses and pharmacology, dosing, pregnancy/lactation, interactions, adverse reactions, toxicology, and references. A “Clinical Overview” box begins each monograph and summarizes use, dosing, contraindications, pregnancy/lactation, interaction, adverse reaction, and toxicology information.

The format provides health care professionals with a quick, up-to-date, objective assessment of the latest medical and scientific studies on numerous natural products, including medically active foods (nutraceuticals).

New eBook: Khan’s Treatment Planning in Radiation Oncology

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The fifth edition of Khan’s Treatment Planning in Radiation Oncology has been added to the library’s collection. This is a comprehensive text of the clinical, physical, and technical aspects of radiation treatment planning. 

Khan’s Treatment Planning in Radiation Oncology incorporates the most up-to-date imaging techniques and radiation treatment modalities used to treat patients with cancer. The fifth edition contains new chapters on patient safety, knowledge-based treatment planning and the treatment planning implications of combined radiation and immunotherapy.

MSKCC contributors include Dr. Gig S. Mageras, Dr. Ellen D. Yorke, Dr. Guang Li, and Dr. Andrew Jackson.