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American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society gives patients the power to find information at their fingertips, so that they can make the best, most informed decision. It contains information on specific cancers, including breast, and prostate cancers. The American Cancer Society also contains patient and family information about dealing with cancer, including prevention, detection guidelines and cancer therapies.
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. In 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.
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.
Breast Cancer Society of Canada
The Breast Cancer Society of Canada provides a list of general facts about breast cancer, as well as a detailed history about breast cancer. It also contains a top-ten list dealing with the defeat breast cancer, and it includes a list of guidelines that the public should follow to try to prevent breast cancer.
Breast Cancer Week
The Breast Cancer week online newsletter is dedicated to providing the latest news and views on the prevention, diagnosis and symptoms of Beast Cancer. All of the news on this site is updated daily, with information on new developments in research, awareness and treatments of Breast Cancer.
Canadian Cancer Society
The Canadian Cancer Society offers a toll free service in which patients can call for a variety of information on cancer, including prevention, detection, treatments, side effects, and therapies, along with emotional and financial support. It contains specific information on breast health and cancer, including support groups, and breast self-examination instructions. This web site also provides specific information regarding prostate health and cancer, including a PSA test (Prostate Specific Antigen Test), treatment, symptoms and diagnosis.
Cancer Care Ontario
This home page has links to provincial as well as national cancer agencies and hospitals providing information on prevention, treatment and support.
City of Hope National Medical Center
The City of Hope National Medical Center contains specific information on prostate cancer, gynaecologic cancer, breast cancer, kidney cancer, colorectal cancer, and genitourinary cancer. It includes various prevention studies, diagnosis, treatments, therapeutics, and support services. This web site features detailed information on bone marrow transplantation, stem cell procedures, and treatments available for hematologic cancers and solid tumors. It contains additional information on radio immunotherapy and gene therapies including exclusive research and images. This medical center also provides a wide array of information on pediatric and adolescent services, research, bone marrow transplantation, specific cancers, treatments, and education.
Cleveland Clinic Foundation Welcome Page
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation contains detailed information on breast cancer, including guidelines for screening, breast self-examinations, breast biopsies, and breast reductions. It includes specific information on radiation oncology, radiation therapy, treatment programs, and patient services. This web site also contains information on a variety of experimental therapeutics provided for patients who have been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, lymphoma, breast cancer, lung cancer or gastrointestinal cancer.
Fox Chase Cancer Center
The Fox Chase Cancer Clinic contains a list of prevention and risk assessment programs including clinical chemoprevention and prevention programs for colon cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, and oral cancer. It provides a family risk assessment program that is designed especially for people with a family history of cancer. It also includes a list of cancer treatment programs that are available for various types of cancer.
Info Breast Cancer – Stan and Carol’s Web Site
This web site contains specific information on lymphedema (secondary to breast cancer), the causes, symptoms, prevention, and additional resources for recovery from breast cancer. It contains specific information on osteoporosis including risk factors, detection, prevention, and treatment. It also provides a guide to self-breast examinations and guides for basic healthy eating and nutrition. In addition it includes specific cancer links dealing with breast reconstruction, support, chemotherapy, and more.
Look Good…Feel Better Home Page
This program is designed to help women cope with the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation therapy. It provides free advice on how to deal with temporary hair loss, dry or sensitive skin, complexion changes and good nail care.
Manitoba Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation
This web site contains links to additional resources regarding information on specific cancers, including brain tumors, breast cancer, general cancer, esophageal cancer, lymphoma, ovarian cancer, and prostate cancer.
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.
National Breast Cancer Centre (NHMRC) Home Page
The National Breast Cancer Centre contains several publications dealing with breast cancer. This includes articles from the spring issue of Breast News, covering information on the diet and guidelines to follow for patients with breast cancer, and risks of breast cancer following an abortion. It also offers a variety of articles from the autumn and winter issues of Breast News, including cultural attitudes towards breast cancer, hormone treatments, breast cancer management, chemotherapy, etc. Furthermore, this web site offers recent information on numerous aspects regarding breast cancer.
National Breast Cancer Coalition Web
This web site contains information on a photographic essay about breast cancer, so patients can grasp the epidemic proportions of breast cancers by focusing on the individual women behind the numbers. It also provides information on clinical trial projects including the four major components involved; a legislative strategy, an educational program, a training program, an industry partnership, and a clearinghouse for clinical trials.
National Cancer Institute (NCI) CancerNet Cancer Information
The National Cancer Institute offers a broad range of information on various aspects of cancer. It offers specific information about breast cancer including treatment, detection, prevention, and risk factors. This web site also contains treatment information for other types of cancer: including various therapies, nutrition facts, and the side effects of cancer treatment. In addition to the general information, there is a unique area containing cancer information for different ethnic groups. The National Cancer Institute also takes into account children with cancer and therefore, it provides a special home page for children.
ONCOLINK – A University of Pennsylvania Cancer Canter Resource
ONCOLINK provides cancer patients with the most up to date and accurate information involving cancer. It offers menus dealing with disease that will allow patients to look up a variety of different cancers. It includes specific types of cancer such as breast cancer and lymphoma. This web site also contains information on cancer causes, screening, and prevention; this will inform patients of the environmental factors, smoking issues, diet, and genetic factors surrounding cancer. In addition to the general information about cancer, there is a section called clinical trials: this allows patients to read about new treatments, pain management, and newly designed studies involving other patients.
Ontario Breast Screening Program
Provides information on booking breast screenings as well as providing basic information and links to other breast cancer sites. This site is available in English and in French.
The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation
Established in 1986, the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation (CBCF) has set out on a mission to raise funds through special events, fundraisers, corporate sponsorships, donations, and the likewise, and to date has raised in excess of $6.7 million dollars for breast cancer research projects and services. Their web site is dedicated to educating and enabling the truth to be known about breast cancer by offering facts, specific research programs, and news on developments dealing with breast cancer around the globe.
University of Nebraska Medical Center
This medical center provides information on breast cancer including self-examinations, mammograms, breast screening, risks of breast cancer, and breast cancer surgery. It contains information on gynaecologic cancers and ovarian cancer including prevention and early detection, pap smears, and the warning signs of female genital cancer.
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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