Research Guides: Cancer: Books

New Titles

Clinical Trials in Oncology by Stephanie Green; Jacqueline Benedetti; Angela Smith
Call Number: RC267 .G744 2012
ISBN: 9781439814482
Publication Date: 2012-05-09
The third edition of the bestselling Clinical Trials in Oncologyprovides a concise, nontechnical, and thoroughly up-to-date review of methods and issues related to cancer clinical trials.
The MASCC Textbook of Cancer Supportive Care and Survivorship by Ian N. Olver (Editor)
Call Number: RC270.8 .M373 2011
ISBN: 9781441912244
Publication Date: 2010-11-25
Addressing physical and psychosocial matters of survivorship prior to, during, and after anticancer treatment is central to a patient’s wellbeing.

Searching for Books

To search for books, journals, and audiovisual materials held by the VCU Libraries, use the VCU Library Search. This allows you to search by title, author, keyword and subject. Possible medical search terms include: neoplasms, oncogenes, antineoplastic agents, radiotherapy, neoplasm metastasis, clinical trials, carcinogens, oncologic nursing, radiation oncology, and cancer vaccines.

Call number ranges (for browsing the Libraries stacks)

RA 645.C3	Public health aspects of cancer
RC 254-282	Neoplasms, tumors, oncology
RD 651-678	Surgical oncology
RM 260+ or RC 271.C5	Chemotherapy
RX 261.3 or RX 376	Homeopathic treatment

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