title: Keeping up with the cancer literature--PDQ ACCESS.
abstract: Physician Data Query (PDQ) (National Cancer Institute [NCI], Bethesda, MD) and CANCERLIT (NCI, Bethesda, MD) are two online cancer information databases. PDQ summarizes current cancer therapy literature into specific treatment recommendations. CANCERLIT is a bibliographic system similar to MEDLINE (National Library of Medicine [NLM], Bethesda, MD) that provides a comprehensive source of literature citations for the field of cancer. In this report, we discuss linking PDQ and CANCERLIT with PDQ ACCESS (NCI, Bethesda, MD)--a custom software package that makes searching the cancer literature easy for the practicing physician unfamiliar with database searching.
authors.affiliation: International Cancer Information Center, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892.
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Perry
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Sloane
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Hubbard
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Tingley
authors.forename: V T
authors.initials: VT
authors.lastname: DeVita
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D009317:National Library of Medicine (U.S.); D009369:Neoplasms; D009862:Online Systems; D012984:Software; D014481:United States