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Lung Cancer Awareness Month November 2023

November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month - according to Macmillan Cancer Support, more than 130 people are diagnosed with lung cancer every day in the UK.  It is the third most common cancer in the UK so highlighting the signs and symptoms of the two main types (small-cell & non-small-cell), as well as raising awareness of the treatment available is vital.

 

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES 

The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer numerous resources related to this topic. In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items from our collection. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter. This document covers the following resources – books, journals, journal articles and patient information 

 

BOOKS   

  • Principles of pulmonary medicine; Weinberger, Steven E; Cockrill, Barbara; Mandel, Jess; 2023 (Elsevier), 8th edition. [Available as a Keele e-book & available on Clinical Key for NHS via Open Athens]
  • Lung Cancer, Erin Alexis Gillaspie, Amanda S. Cass and Leora Horn, 2024 (Elsevier) [UHNM e-book via Clinical Key] 

JOURNALS   

  • Journal of thoracic oncology (Online); International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. [Available as an e-journal for both Keele & NHS from 2006 onwards]
  • Clinical lung cancer; Cancer Information Group; CIG Media Group. [Available as a Keele e-journal from 1999 onwards]*
  • JTO clinical and research reports; International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer; Elsevier. [Available as an e-journal for both Keele & NHS from 2020 onwards]
  • Translational lung cancer research; Society for Translational Cancer Research; Pioneer Bioscience Publishing. [Available as an e-journal for both Keele & NHS from 2012 onwards]
  • Lung cancer management; Future Medicine. [Available as an e-journal for Keele users from 2012 onwards & for NHS users from 2016 onwards]

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

*N.B. NHS staff who are members of the Health Library can request a temporary Keele username which allows access to Keele e-journals from the Training room in the Health Library within the CEC at Royal Stoke.

 

 

JOURNAL ARTICLES  

N.B. All the above articles are Open Access so are available to both Keele & NHS users.

 

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE:  

 

KnowledgeShare CURRENT AWARENESS:   

KnowledgeShare Evidence Updates is a personalised current awareness service which sends, straight to your email inbox, new evidence on topics tailored to your requirements and collated by Health Librarians.For more information, or to register for KnowledgeShare please go to https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/currentawareness/. 


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