Library Announcements

The New Building is Nearly Ready!

The Medical Library is planning to have a moving experience and here are some early details. In early to mid-October we will pack up all of our books and journals, offices and us, and move to our new beautiful library in the new College of Medicine building. During a short time, the physical library will not be accessible but our digital library, as always, will be accessible 24/7.

We will provide you with specific dates shortly via e-mail.

PDA and Online Resources -- Cancer Screening

Internet Resources

These are all linked from the library site at http://med.fsu.edu/library/prevention.asp)

        Figure 1. National Guidelines Clearinghouse

National Guidelines Clearinghouse (AHRQ) houses all the guidelines for cancer screening. (Figure 1) Select detailed search, set Guideline Category to “screening” and disease to the type of cancer. PDA Note: all brief summaries of guidelines are provided as Palm documents to be read with any Palm document reader or as Word documents which can be copied to a Pocket PC
http://www.guideline.gov

National Cancer Institute has a listing of all recommendations for screening for cancer. The PDQ resources are the best. The Cancer Screening Overview linked from this page is excellent.
http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/screening

Figure 2. Put Prevention into Practice

Put Prevention into Practice: Clinician's Handbook of Preventive Services, 2nd Edition at the Virtual Naval Hospital
Scroll down the Table of Contents and look for screening for the age group in question. Each chapter compares the various organizations recommendations. (Figure 2)
http://www.vnh.org/PreventionPractice

Library Resources

Harrison’s: Chapter 80, Prevention and Early Detection of Cancer, contains a section on Cancer Screening with great tables like Table 80-4 that compares the recommendations of the USPSTF, ACS and CTFPHC. Follow the link to Access Medicine from the Library web page and search on “cancer screening”. It will be the first thing that comes up.
http://harrisons.accessmedicine.com/

Figure 3. Dynamed Categories

Dynamed: The best resource to link you to the original research, Dynamed presents all the evidence for and against. Select the type of cancer for which you are screening, then expand Prevention and Screening.
(Figure 3)
The articles (Figure 4) are linked directly to full-text when you are on-campus or using EZProxy.
http://www.dynamicmedical.com/

Figure 4. Dynamed References with Links

PDA Resource

InfoRetriever:   While we wait for C-Tools (see below) to be released, InfoRetriever has some Practice Guidelines on Cancer Screening. The web based InfoRetriever has many more. http://www.infopoems.com/irsearch/irsearch.cfm

Look under Type of Search: Practice Guidelines, and Select a System: Neoplasms.
Then expand Screening. (Figure 5)

Also look under Type of Search: Clinical Rules and Calculators > Hematology/Oncology. (Figure 6)
There are two prediction tools, one for unwanted weight loss as a predictor of cancer (Figure 7) and the Gail Risk Model predictor for Breast cancer.

In addition, there are a number of Diagnostic Test information tools and History and Physical exam tools under each type of cancer.

Figure 5.

Figure 6.

Figure 7.

Look for this New Free PDA Tool for Cancer:   C-Tools v2.0 is being tested by the ACS. Release date January 2005. (Figure 8 shows v.1.0)

Figure 8. Cancer Tools v.1.0

Article (at www.cancer.org):

Wanted: Beta Testers If you are interested …. The American Cancer Society is seeking volunteer alpha/beta testers for their C-Tools (formerly CA-Tools) program. They are looking for residents, nurses, physician assistants, and doctors who would like to review and comment on their tools as they are created. No PDA is needed.
If you want to sign up please email them here:
testing@acspdasupport.com
posted by Kent Willyard 5:37 PM |August 20, 2004

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