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Association of Cancer Online Resources
When visiting the Association of Cancer Online Resources (ACOR) you will find access to a number of secure electronic mailing lists offering support to cancer patients around the globe. On this site there are also a number of links to a variety of unique web sites for cancer patients, their families, and physicians. There are also links to monitored chat rooms, and many other helpful resources.
Association of Community Cancer Centers
This web site contains information for patients and their families regarding health costs, cancer treatments, insurance companies, financial resource, and cancer benefits.
Breast Cancer Answers Project
This web site contains a clinical trials matching system, which matches breast cancer patients to specific clinical trial information based on the stage of their disease, prior treatment, and other important criteria. It also includes an art gallery and personal stories put together by those who have dealt with the difficult of living with breast cancer.
Breast Cancer Net
The Breast Cancer Net provides a list of treatment canters and support groups for patients and their families. It also contains various articles regarding breast cancer, including chemotherapy, breast reconstruction, radiation therapy, pain management, self-examinations, and recovery and healing.
Cancer Care Inc.
The web site of Cancer Care Inc. contains a wide range of information on cancer, including a cancer library, short information sheets regarding treatment, and guidelines to cope with cancer. It provides a section that includes information on dealing with cancer patients, financial resources for patients, and information on support groups. This web site also provides specific information regarding fatigue, pain, brain tumors, and melanoma.
Cancer Info for Patients – Michelle’s Place in Cyberspace
This web site was produced by a 26 year old Radiation Therapist. It contains interesting information that is easy to understand, and at a very personal level. It provides accurate information on various therapies, including radiation, chemotherapy, as well as their side effects. Michelle’s cyberspace also contains information on several medications and their side effects.
Cancer News
This web site is dedicated to the spirit of survival! It contains a list of sites created by cancer patients and their families regarding specific types of cancer at a personal level.
Cancer Wellness Center
This web site contains information on the variety of support groups and programs that the Cancer Wellness Center offers, and the latest news regarding them. It also provides additional cancer links.
CancerGuide: Steve Dunn’s Cancer Information Page
The Cancer Guide is an information page written by a fellow patient. The main focus of this site is on the technical information about cancer. It contains basic information on cancer, including different cancer types, staging, types of treatments available, therapies, and bone marrow transports. This web site provides information on specific cancers including kidney cancer, prostate cancer, melanoma, brain tumors, and rare cancers.
CancerTrials: A Service of the National Cancer Institute
Being a service of the National Cancer Institute enables this site to use in-depth material to inform all patients about cancer types, research on cancer, specific trials, information on understanding trials, and locating ongoing trials and their costs. Proving to be an excellent source for information, CancerTrials also includes the latest and most up-to-date news dealing with cancer and cancer trials world-wide.
Cedars-Sinai Outpatient Cancer Center
This web site contains information on specific cancers including treatment, medical services, support groups, and newsletters.
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
This site contains general definitions and information on specific types of cancers and cancer prevention strategies. It lists the general causes of cancers, including genetics, and exposure that can cause cancer. It provides information on treatments of cancers, including side effects of treatments, dealing with complications of cancer, and cancer symptoms. Additional information on living with cancer and a list of various support groups is also available.
Drug InfoNet
The Drug InfoNet provides patients with the necessary information that they should know about the medications that they are taking. It also contains information on various diseases, descriptions, articles, news, support groups, and other resources.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
This site contains information on treatment processes including preparations, transplants, engraftment, early recovery, and long term recovery. It also contains information on clinical research and patient and family support services.
Icare
The International Cancer Alliance provides high quality, user-friendly, cancer information to each patient on a personal level. It contains a 12-part patient survival guide that includes information on cancer therapy reviews regarding several specific adult and pediatric cancers. This web site also includes patient experiences with carious prostate cancer therapies, and it provides a cancer information bulletin board containing recent cancer news.
Med Help International
Med Help International contains a medical library that includes information on thousands of illnesses and diseases, and numerous support groups. It also provides a patient network that allows patients to search for other patients with similar illnesses.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
This contains a cancer overview that includes information on a number of specific cancers. It provides the top ten tips for reducing cancer risks, four warning signs of myeloma, guidelines for skin self-exams, breast self-exams, and dietary guidelines. This web site also contains information on a variety of cancer prevention and wellness programs that are available for patients with cancer.
Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center
The Cancer Center offers information on clinical research dealing with various cancers, and cancer prevention. It contains information about clinical trials, as well as a list of clinical trials currently being performed. It also includes information on radiation oncology, support groups, and education programs.
OncoChat: Online Peer Support for Cancer Survivors, Family and Friends (Chat Site)
OncoChat offers a wonderful opportunity to speak on-line with other cancer survivors. Not all those participating in OncoChat are cancer survivors however, so this site is a great place to start your search for answers if you’re a relative, or just a friend who’s been touched. Although this chat site does not offer professional counseling, it is a great place to find much needed support.
The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship
Cansearch was started by a patient who survived colon cancer. It contains specific links dealing with cancer including clinical trials, support, pain, grieving processes, numerous cancer types, bone marrow transplants, and cancer guides.
University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center – UMCCC
This web site contains a hematology-oncology home page that includes information on research programs for several cancers. It also offers a toll free information line specially designed for cancer patients and their families.
Welcome to Breast Cancer Lighthouse
The Breast Cancer Lighthouse allows newly diagnosed women to explore medical information and survivors personal stories about breast cancer and treatment options. It contains specific information on ductal cancer (cancer that is contained in the breast duct, and has not spread), including the diagnosis, treatment, and recovery from ductal breast cancer. It also provides specific information on invasive cancer (cancer that has spread to other parts of the breast, and perhaps other parts of the body as well), including the diagnosis, local and synthetic treatment options, and recovery from invasive breast cancer. This web site also includes various personal stories about patients and their survival against breast cancer.
Windsor Regional Cancer Center
As the web site of the Windsor Regional Cancer Center, it provides information on breast cancer as well as several other forms of cancer. It also provides regional information and links regarding prevention, care and support services.
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