Library: Oncology: Overview

Purpose of this Guide

This guide is a starting point to discover Advocate Health - Midwest Library resources for oncology.

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PubMed This link opens in a new window Free and easy to use search engine from the National Library of Medicine. Find journal articles on medicine, pharmacology, integrative medicine, nursing and allied health topics.
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MEDLINE (Ovid) This link opens in a new window Articles from academic journals in the fields of medicine and pharmacy, with select coverage of nursing and allied health.
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Freely available online resources for your patients:

Cancer.Net Provides timely, oncologist-approved information to help patients and families make informed health care decisions. All content is subject to a formal peer-review process by the Cancer.Net Editorial Board, composed of more than 150 medical, surgical, radiation, and pediatric oncologists, physician assistants, oncology nurses, social workers and patient advocates.
CDC: Cancer Learn how to lower your cancer risk and what CDC is doing to prevent and control cancer.
MedlinePlus: Cancer MedlinePlus is an online health information resource for patients and their families and friends. It is a service of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world's largest medical library, which is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Merck Manual: Cancer Consumer Version - Overview of Cancer & Prevention and Treatment of Cancer
National Cancer Institute This website offers free, credible, and comprehensive information about cancer prevention and screening, diagnosis and treatment, research across the cancer spectrum, clinical trials, and news and links to other NCI websites. The information on this site is science-based, authoritative, and up-to-date. Medical experts, cancer researchers, and editors review the content before it is published to the website.
National Comprehensive Cancer Network: Patient Resources The NCCN is a not-for-profit alliance of 31 leading cancer centers devoted to patient care, research and education.

Additional resources for patient education materials can be found on our Patient Health Information guide.

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