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CANCER RESEARCH ONLINE MADE EASY

PROSTATE CANCER HEALTH PROFESSIONAL PDQ

Although I won’t reproduce the whole version here, let’s take a look at the first page of the health professional version. We’ll get to it by clicking on the health professional version box. Here I’ve pointed our red arrow at the box to click.

health professional version prostate cancer

Here is the first page of the health professional version:

medical professional version

As you can see there is more detail and scientific data presented in the health professional version. There is a new section on Cellular Classification (red arrow) and many of the statements are documented with references to articles in the medical literature which can be found in footnotes further down. An example of a reference to a footnote can also be seen (blue arrow).

If you would ever like to read any article in its entirety, the footnotes list what journal an article was published in and when. With this information you can visit the closest medical library, find the journal, and read the entire article.

Or, as you’ll learn how to do in a later chapter, you can look up the article online in the Pub Med database.

If any of the medical terms you come across in reading these reviews are confusing you can look them up in this glossary of medical research terms:

www.cancer.gov/dictionary/

As a final step, I suggest that you return to the first page for a cancer type and look for any other articles in the Treatment section. Here you may find separate articles if there have been any new and exciting developments in that particular cancer. For example, under breast cancer you'll see an article on herceptin and an article on bevacizumab.

breast cancer treatment highlights