How To Find Abstracts And Free Full Text Journal Articles On Prostate Cancer

To research the scientific literature and find medical articles written about prostate cancer you first need to know about Pub Med.

Pub Med is the online medical database of the National Library Of Medicine. Pub Med includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s.

Pub Med  can be found at www.pubmed.com

How To Search Pub Med For Free Full Text Articles On Prostate Cancer

Once you get to the Pub Med home page, you'll see a search box.

To start off, you can type " prostate cancer" in the box. Then click search.

As of August, 2006 over 56,000 medical articles have been written which turned up in our search. for prostate cancer. Obviously, this number of articles is far too large to actually read.

Pub Med has a number of choices which allow you to narrow down your search.

To narrow down your search, click on LIMITS which you can see just below the search box. When you click on LIMITS, a new page will open up which allow to narrow your search.

If you are interested in free full text articles on prostate cancer then start off by clicking on the box for LINKS FOR FREE FULL TEXT. Then click Go at the bottom of the page. As of August, 2006 a total of 4,881 articles appeared in the results.

To narrow down the search even further, look carefully at the choices in the LIMITS section. For example, there is a choice entitlted Dates. By clicking on articles that have been published in the last 90 days the list can be narrowed down to 53 articles.

Many interesting articles on prostate cancer, or prostate neoplasm, or adenocarcinoma of the prostate are represented only by an abstract and not the whole free full text. 

These abstracts can be read for free online. Abstracts often provide excellent summary information.

If you decide that you want to read the full text of the article for free, then make a note of the journal title and the volume.

You can then go the closest medical library, find the actual medical journal, and read the fulltext of journal articles on prostate cancer for free.