Bio+179+Cancer+Biology

=@2016 Cancer Projects= =2015 Cancer Projects= =@2014 Cancer Projects= =2012 Cancer Projects= =2011 Cancer Projects=

Readings:

The Hallmarks of Cancer
 * The Original Hanahan and Weinberg Paper
 * The revised paper: The Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation [Required reading]
 * Wikipedia entry

=Important Links and Resources=

SCU Library Cancer Biology Resource Page

The Emperor of All Maladies, the PBS three-part series.
NCBI National Center for Biotechnology Information Your portal for vast repositories of biomedical information, including:
 * PubMed the Medline database of all published biomedical articles.
 * PubMed Central the NIH's free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal articles
 * NCBI GENE An important database of every known gene
 * CGAP the Cancer Genome Anatomy Project
 * PubChem providing information on bioreactive small molecules, including many cancer therapies

Cancer.gov is the National Cancer Institute's portal to a wide array of data and resources on cancer.
 * PDQ NCI's Physician Desk Query comprehensive cancer database
 * Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results (SEER)The NCI's database of cancer prevalence in the United States.
 * Atlas of Cancer Cancer Mortality Maps

American Cancer Society has excellent resources and information for the general public.
 * [|Cancer Facts and Figures 2015]

[|NCCN] is the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, a group of about 68 NCI-designated institutions (mostly academic) that wok on cancer research, treatment and education (registration required).

Cancer Genomics Resources
 * Tumor Portal
 * The Cancer Genome Project: The Welcome Trust Sanger Institute in Great Britain established the CGP to identify mutations in cancers.
 * International Cancer Genome Consortium
 * Pediatric Cancer Genome Project: A database of genomic data of childhood cancers.


 * UCSC Human Genome Browser

CDC WONDER: The Centers for Disease Control cancer data and reports

North American Association of Central Cancer Registries

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