Access Via the Internet PDQ's cancer information files are available on NCI's CancerNet, an electronic service that gives computer users the same information as CancerFax via the Internet 24 hours a day. CancerNet users send electronic mail messages containing the appropriate code to the NCI computer and receive the desired information in English or Spanish. As high-speed networks become more widely used, this technology is expected to play an ever more important role in disseminating NCI information services and products.
CancerNet has greatly improved foreign access to PDQ. One-third of the users accessing CancerNet on the Internet are from foreign countries. The complete PDQ system is also being made available on the Internet to members of the NCI's Information Associate's Program. For access to PDQ on the Internet, contact the National Cancer Institute's Information Associate's Program, Building 82, Room 123, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20892 or fax a request for information to (301) 480-8105.
Online Access through Commercia1 Databases Commercial database distributors with online medical information systems also provide access to PDQ. More information on these vendors can be obtained from the NCI. Write to the PDQ Coordinator, National Cancer Institute, Building 82, Room 100, Bethesda, MD 20892, fax (301) 480-8105, or get a list of the distributors and their addresses from CancerFax.
Compact Disc Access PDQ is offered on CD-ROM by commercial database distributors. The advantage of a compact disc is that the user does not have to connect with another computer over a telephone line to
