How to find more information about breast cancer:

1. CancerGuide: Steve Dunn's Cancer Information Page including detailed information on searching the medical literature (medical textbooks and journals)
2. Cancer FAQ E. Loren Buhle, Jr., Ph.D, including evaluating information on the Internet, characteristics of cancer cells, transformation of normal cells to cancer cells, cancer staging, classification of tumors
3. Finding and evaluating medical articles
1. Find medical articles on Medscape's free Medline search engine. Medline includes abstracts of medical articles, not full-text articles. Use the abstract to find the full-text article. You may purchase full-text articles at this site, but they are very expensive. It is cheaper to read them at a hospital or medical school library. You must first register to use Medscape, but Medscape is free and open to anyone who registers.
2. Determine how reliable the articles are. Trisha Greenhalgh explains how to evaluate medical articles in these British Medical Journal articles:
1. Is the article valid? This includes a clear explanation of levels of evidence, from single case reports, which are the least valid to randomized controlled studies, which if properly performed, are the most valid.
2. Were the methods valid?
3. Evaluating papers that summarize other papers, including review articles and meta-analyses (analyses of multiple other research studies)
4. Evaluating drug trials
5. Understanding statistics Part I
6. Understanding Statistics Part II "Significant" relations and their pitfalls
4. Finding medical information on the Internet:
   1. Patient Power: Turning a Medical Mountain Into a Manageable Molehill by Susan Coburn of the New York Times, a free site that requires registration for use
   2. Use an Internet search engine:
   1. google
   2. Copernic 2000

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