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Listed below are a number of
excellent web sites which will assist you in your search for more information about
cancer. Cancer research is a very dynamic field. There are exciting things happening
in this area.
I will try to up-date this site often.
Medical
Search Services
- various fee based
Provides customers with a
detailed report on treatments, doctors, and cutting edge trials in
sometimes voluminous reports for a fee.
American Cancer Society
The premier source for cancer information, networking and information.
OncoLink - University of Pennsylvania Cancer Information
This wonderful site provides easily understood information on all types of
cancer.
CancerSource.com
presents a web site devoted specifically to health professionals: These
disease-specific articles are updated daily to provide you with the latest
and most accurate cancer news available.
CancerSourceRn
A web site devoted specifically to health professionals in partnership
with the Oncology Nursing Society.
Cancer Guide
CancerGuide is dedicated
to helping you find the answers to your questions about cancer, and
especially to helping you find the questions you need to ask. You may want
to read about the pros
and cons of researching your cancer before going any further.
American
Society of Clinical Oncology
ASCO OnLine offers a guide for ASCO members and health care
professionals as health care consumers to
national patient organizations as well as strategies for finding medical and
other resources in the community.
Aplastic Anemia
Foundation
American Society of Hematology
Association of Cancer Online Resources
Created by a husband of a cancer survivor, this site has a network
list of over 150 cancer resources.
Brain Tumor Information
Breast
Cancer Information Clearinghouse
Lung Cancer Web sites
Prostate Cancer Web sites
Pancreatic Cancer Pancreatica.org
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Pancreatica provides
a concentrated wealth of current and topical scientific and
medical information about pancreatic
cancer. The site also has one of the largest databases
of clinical trials involving pancreatic cancer.
Pancreatica is available for patient or physician study and review
and receives no remuneration if patients join any of the trials.
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Cancer Education Support Groups and
Cancer Education
Cancerfacts.com
Developed by a private organization to provide patients with
cancer-related information, an e-mail discussion group, news, and a
listing of support groups. Has a unique Cancer Profiler tool for breast
cancer which is an interactive information service that gives patients
access to current medical information from current and significant
published studies to assist in medical decision making. Access is free,
but users must register to use the information tool.
Search for Clinical Trials
- Often advancement in
medical treatments are first recognized in clinical trials. Clinical
trials are important for cancer treatments since every advancement in
treatment is made from clinical trials. For cancer patients, entering a
clinical trial is an important step. There are great advantages in
clinical trials, and there are also great risks. Clinical trials can offer
patients and families hope in the form of a chance to try promising
treatments not yet available to the public. The risk is the fact that
clinical trials are experimental; not all is known about the effects of
the drugs offered in clinical trials. Whatever decision is made
about participating in clinical trials, that decision should made with
full knowledge about the trial, about the drug(s) and about the goal(s) of
the treatment.
Listed below are various Internet web sites that offer extensive
information about clinical cancer trials, including lists of studies and
explanations of informed consent, the different phases of trials, and how
clinical trials work.
National Institutes of Health Check the links to member institutes, many of whom provide clinical
trial information on their home pages
Clinical Trials recently introduced by the
National Institutes of Health to provide information on more than 4,400
federal and private studies of a wide assortment of diseases throughout
the nation.
National Cancer Institute (NCI) provides
information about clinical trials in cancer, offers a Cancer Information
Service only a phone call away at 1-800-4-CANCER
Center Watch
This link is provided by the Medical Economics publishing company a
list of newly approved drugs and clinical trials for many diseases. as
well as offers information on participating in clinical trials.
Medical Breakthroughs reported by
Ivenhoe site will email you with medical breakthroughs related to your
specific requests. Site also contains a search engine for clinical trials.
Cancer News on the Net
www.cancernews.com
NCI's CancerNet Cancer Information
CancerGuide: Steve Dunn's Cancer Information Page
Complementary / alternative
medicine
National Center for Complementary and Alternative
Medicine - NCCAM -
National Institutes of Health - NIH
Genetics
Clinical Cancer Genetics
(credential/certification information
available 5/2001)
Health page
Health
www.the-health-pages.com
www.onhealth.com
Healthfinder
Health
News
www.healthfinder.gov
www.reutershealth.com
Humor is always important in
life and in healing.
Jest -- HEALTH & HUMOR RESOURCES (a
partial Giggly-ography)
Insurance Information
National
Association of Insurance Commissioners
Mayo Clinic's Health Oasis
Med Access On-Line
Med
Bookstore
www.medaccess.com
www.medbookstore.com
Medicine Net
Medicine On
Line
www.medicinenet.com
Medicine OnLine HomePage
Medscape
Oncology
This site hosts oncology news items, conference schedules and summaries,
treatment update information, and disease-specific discussions for a variety
of cancers. Requires registration; access to information is free, financial
support provided through advertisement fees and fees from other services.
National Cancer Institute including the Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool
Network for Oncology Communication and Research with links to numerous oncology Internet sites
Nutrition guidance from the American Institute for Cancer Research and the Nutrition Hotline
Online
American Dietetic Association:
OncoLink - University of Pennsylvania Cancer Information
This wonderful site provides easily understood information on all types of
cancer.
Oncology Nursing Society Online
This is one of my favorite sites, for patients and
professionals.
Ovarian Cancer Web sites
Ovarian Cancer Research Notebook
www.wcn.org
Palliative Care - Pain
Janet's Oncology Pain Page
ASMLE
links
Beth
Israel Medical Center - Stoppain.org
Site
Specific Disease Information on Search Engines
http://www.altavista.digital.com/
http://www.excite.com
http://www.hotbot.com
http://www.infoseek.com
http://www.lycos.com
http://www.yahoo.com
(type in the name of the disease or other keyword[s] for your search)
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