Research Guides: Health Care Assistant: Cancer

Featured Print Books

The Biopolitics of Breast Cancer Mapping the contours of breast cancer - Breast cancer in the twenty-first century - The regime of medicalization
Call Number: RC 280 .B8 K568 2008
Handbook of Communication in Oncology and Palliative Care Comprehensive text provides clinicians with practical and evidence-based guidelines to achieve effective, patient-centered communication in the areas of cancer and palliative care.
Call Number: RC 254.5 .H355 2010
What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about TM Prostate Cancer "The psa controversy -- A critical decision -- Measuring bad news -- What most doctors will tell you -- What most doctors won't tell you -- New hope or false hope -- Considering your options -- Natural remedies -- The healthy prostate diet -- Brothers and sons -- You are not alone."
Call Number: RC 280 .P7 B83 2005

Featured eBooks

Check the Library's Search All catalogue for more e-books on cancer in general, specific types of cancer, treatment, and patient care.

Access to Care and Factors That Impact Access, Patients As Partners in Care and Changing Roles of Health Providers This volume in the highly-regarded Research in the Sociology of Health Care series, deals with both macro-level system issues and micro-level issues involving access to care, factors that impact access, patients as partners in care and changing roles of health providers.
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EBSCO eBook Collections
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Selected Agencies and Organizations

BC Cancer Agency From the very beginning, the BC Cancer Agency has seen, and driven, many changes in cancer care, knowledge translation and research. What has never changed during the last 75 years is our clear focus on the quality of patient care as well as our drive to improve detection and treatment options for patients through investigative research – all of which have paved the way for how we deliver our services today.
Canadian Cancer Society he Canadian Cancer Society is a national, community-based organization of volunteers whose mission is the eradication of cancer and the enhancement of the quality of life of people living with cancer.
Cancer - (Public Health Agency of Canada) "There are many different types of cancers. All are characterized by cells that start growing abnormally and spread to other parts of the body."
Cancer - (World Health Organization)
National Cancer Institute - (US)
BC Cancer Foundation The BC Cancer Foundation is the fundraising partner of the BC Cancer Agency and the largest funder of cancer research in this province.

Streaming Video Collections

Criterion-on-Demand (Multidisciplinary) This collection has more than 2,600 major motion pictures (largely Hollywood films) and more than 100 documentary features. Their goal is to provide easy access to educationally relevant feature films used in Canadian Higher Education Institutions.
Curio.ca (Multidisciplinary) This collection gives teachers and students streaming access to the best in educational video and audio from CBC and Radio-Canada. You'll find documentaries from television and radio, news reports and more — all available with a single subscription!
Films on Demand: Business & Economics Videos (Business) In a world of bubbles and busts, extreme poverty and astronomical wealth, rapidly emerging worldwide markets and a digital revolution that is transforming practically everything, few video collections are more crucial to keeping up with changing times. Economic theory, basic business education, accounting and finance fundamentals, business ethics and law, management and marketing—it’s all here, in depth.
Films on Demand: Technical & Trades Videos This collection of online videos includes a variety of subjects related to Technology and Trades, including: Agriculture, Automotive Technology, Building & Technical Trades, Engineering Technology, Information Technology, and Technical Communication.
NFB (Multidisciplinary) Collection includes documentaries, animations, experimental films and fiction. NFB showcases films that take a stand on issues of global importance that matter to Canadians—stories about the environment, human rights, international conflict, the arts and more.

Research on Cancer

American Association for Cancer Research
World Cancer Research Fund International
Canadian Cancer Research Alliance
Institute of Cancer Research The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR) funds cancer research in Canada based on internationally accepted standards of excellence, which bear on preventing and treating cancer, and improving the health and quality of life of cancer patients.

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Streaming Video Collections

Research on Cancer