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Cancer and Medical Dictionaries

On-line dictionary at the Cancer.gov website from the National Institutes of Health.
http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary/

Medical dictionary from MEDLINEplus and Merriam Webster:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/mplusdictionary.html

Clinical Trial Databases

US NCI and NIH Clinical Trials Databases

National Cancer Institute: Comprehensive searchable registry presented by the US National Cancer Institute.
http://www.cancer.gov/search/clinical_trials/

National Institutes of Health: You may also search a wider database for all clinical trials (cancer related or otherwise) by using the following NIH link:
http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui

WHO Clinical Trials Database

ICTRP: Newly launched international search engine to centralize entries from a number of qualified registries around the world. While this is not a registry in itself, it does make the information from its several participating registries. The acronym stands for International Clinical Trials Registry Platform. We hope this registration platform will provide comprehensive coverage.
http://www.who.int/trialsearch/Default.aspx

"The mission of the WHO Registry Platform is to ensure that a complete view of research is accessible to all those involved in health care decision making. This will improve research transparency and will ultimately strengthen the validity and value of the scientific evidence base. "

"The registration of all interventional trials is a scientific, ethical and moral responsibility."

MEDLINEplus® Health Information

Consumer health information from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). MEDLINEplus® will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MEDLINEplus brings together, by health topic, authoritative information from NLM, the NIH, other government, non-profit and other health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MEDLINEplus and give easy access to the medical research literature. It also provides you with a database of full-text drug information and an illustrated medical encyclopedia. Link: http://medlineplus.gov/

MEDLINEplus®News

Constantly-updated medical news headline links and archived stories. Sources include the New York Times Syndicate, Reuters, and the AP News Service. The news link directory is maintained by the National Library of Medicine's MedlinePlus health information service.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/newsbydate.html

NCBI Databases

The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) maintains a number of critical biotechnology databases, including PubMed (see below) that can be accessed by the public. Most of these databases are of interest to the specialist only, but PubMed is key to searching for citations on clinical research. Twenty one NCBI databases can be accessed through the following link:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

PubMed

PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. This is undoubtedly a key resource for any kind of systematic investigation of the research literature on medical topics. 
http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi

If you are serious about using PubMed to conduct your own searches, it might be helpful for you to go through the PubMed Tutorial found at: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/pubmed_tutorial/m1001.html

You can launch your PubMed search from here. The drop-down menu gives you access to 16 other NCBI databases besides PubMed.

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