Cervical Cancer Prevention Week

January 25^th to January 31^st 2015

Cervical cancer is an uncommon type of cancer that develops in a woman’s cervix. However, globally, cervical cancer is the fourth most common type of cancer and it is the fourth most common cause of death in women suffering from cancer. Cervical cancer is now a largely preventable disease thanks to cervical screening and the HPV vaccination programme. However, every day in the United Kingdom nine women are diagnosed with cervical cancer and three will ultimately lose their life to the disease. The focus of Cervical Cancer Prevention Week (CCPW) is on all things to do with cervical cancer including information about symptoms and causes of the disease and ways to prevent it.

For more information please see the Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust website at: http://www.jostrust.org.uk

RELATED HEALTH LIBRARY RESOURCES

For anyone studying cancer and its effects, the Health Library offers numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a selection of our most popular items, information on materials recently added to our collection and available periodicals.

To locate these items and many more, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.

MOST POPULAR

- Cancer: the misguided cell/ by David M. Prescott et al., c1982, Sinauer Associates.

- The biology of cancer / by Robert Allan Weinberg, 2014, 2^nd edition, Garland Science.

- Cancer chemotherapy : a nursing process approach / by Margaret Barton-Burke, 2001, 3rd edition, Jones and Bartlett.

NEW TO STOCK & OTHER BOOKS

- Strong opioids and the relief of cancer pain: information for patients, families and friends / Palliative Care Formulary, 2013, Palliativedrugs.

- Cervical cancer: a guide for nurses / Ruth Dunleavey, 2009, John Wiley

- Women's cancers / edited by Alison Keen, Elaine Lennan, 2011, Wiley-Blackwell

- Atlas of diagnostic oncology / edited by Arthur T. Skarin, 2003, 3^rd edition, Mosby

JOURNALS

- Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Oxford University Press. [Available as a print journal 1999: vol 99-, and as an e-journal 1996 onwards]

- British journal of cancer, Nature Publishing Group [Available as a print journal 1994-2011: vol. 69-105. Also available as a Keele ejournal 1999 onwards, and as a NHS ejournal 1947 onwards]

- European journal of cancer care, Blackwell Publications [Available as a print journal 1995-2011: vol. 4-20. Also available as a Keele ejournal 1997 onwards, and as a NHS ejournal 1998 onwards]

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/

CURRENT AWARENESS

Cancer - http://www.netvibes.com/healthlibrary_northstaffs#Welcome

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Doing research? Need help finding information? Why not request a literature search (NHS customers only): http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/formsa-z/literaturesearchrequest/

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