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Links to Some of Our Radiation Oncology Colleagues:
New(ish) and Notable Cancer-Related Web Sites:
ACOR, the Association of Cancer Online Resources, offers access to mailing lists that provide support, information, and community to everyone affected by cancer and related disorders.
Do your part to donate mammograms to underprivileged women, as sponsored by The Breast Cancer Site.
The National Colorectal Cancer Research Alliance (NCCRA) was established by television personalities Katie Couric and Lilly Tartikoff, and the Entertainment Industry Foundation to help end the threat of colorectal cancer through education, advancing new research and regular medical screenings.
Considering alternative cancer therapies? You'd be well advised to check out QuackWatch as part of your decision-making process.
Cancer Education.com hopes to improve cancer care through the dissemination of up-to-date and accurate educational programming and information for healthcare professionals, cancer patients and their families.
Cycle of Hope, a joint venture of the Lance Armstrong Foundation and Bristol Myers Squibb, has as its mission to encourage the early detection of cancer, to reduce the fear of cancer through education, and to foster hope among patients and their families fighting the disease.
The National Cervical Cancer Coalition's mission includes: to enhance awareness of the conventional Pap smear, new screening technologies and treatment options; to clearly communicate the success of cervical cancer screening programs in battling the disease; and to assist in efforts related to cervical cancer research.
The Breast Cancer Decision Guide is a website developed by the US Department of Defense for individuals diagnosed with breast cancer and their families. Its purpose is to provide reliable information, clarify issues and encourage communication among patients, doctors, other healthcare providers and family members, so that informed medical and non-medical decisions can be reached.
Y-ME, a national breast cancer organization founded by two breast cancer survivors in 1978, has a commitment to provide information and support to anyone who has been touched by this all-too-common disease. The site is available in both English and Spanish.
About.com's Cancer Page is a portal site containing more cancer-related links than you can shake a stick at!
Everything you've ever wanted to know about lung cancer can be found at Lung Cancer Online. Or, for a more personal "spin" on this disease, why not try out The Faces of Lung Cancer?
As the name implies, BreastCancerinfo.com, brought to you by the Susan B. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, contains just about everything you'd ever want to know about breast cancer.
The National Coalition for Cancer Research focuses its public education efforts on policies that support and foster the U.S. position as a world leader in medical research, development and innovation. Their slogan? Look for the little red button ----->
The National Lyphedema Network is devoted to education, research and advocacy for those suffering from lyphedema, an accumulation of lymphatic fluid in tissue that causes swelling, most often in the arm(s) and/or leg(s). Lymphedema can develop when lymphatic vessels are missing or impaired, or when lymph vessels are damaged or lymph nodes removed. Specific surgeries, such as for melanoma, breast, gynecological, head and neck, prostate, testicular, bladder or colon cancer--all of which currently require removal of lymph nodes--put patients at risk for developing lymphedema.
The Lymphoma Research Foundation of America was founded in 1991 by Ellen Glesby Cohen after she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. It was the first organization targeted specifically at funding lymphoma research on a national basis. Its goal is to promote and support high quality research which will produce better treatments and ultimately result in a cure for the disease.
The American Brain Tumor Association is a global organization that both sponsors brain tumor research and provides the information patients need to make educated decisions about their treatment options.
The Women's Cancer Network, an excellent online resource, is sponsored by the Gynecologic Cancer Foundation. The GCF was established by the Society of Gynecologic Oncologists as a non-profit organization dedicated to working with philanthropic programs that benefit women having, or at risk for developing, gynecologic cancers.
CancerGuide is a comprehensive cancer information page created by Steve Dunn, a fellow patient and kidney cancer survivor. The page is dedicated to helping cancer patients find, and understand, the best and latest information on their disease and its treatment.
Oncolink's Editor's Choice Awards are given to the top providers of cancer-related information over the Internet. This page supplies links to recent award-winning Web sites, all of them quite excellent.
CureSearch is sponsored by the National Childhood Cancer Foundation, a nonprofit organization supporting pediatric cancer treatment and research. The site contains general information on pediatric cancers, ongoing research, inspirational stories from patients and their families, plus profiles on celebrity members of the Foundation's Board of Directors.
At the Melanoma Patients' Information Page, you can request specific information about the disease (most is fairly technical), as well as share your personal experiences with other melanoma patients.
Chris Brewer's Testicular Cancer Resource Center covers everything from how to perform a self-examination to a cost breakdown for the various forms of treatment to current research directions in testicular cancer. There's even a testicular cancer humor section (hard to believe, but true)!
Avon's Breast Cancer Awareness Crusade needs you! Avon's Web site is chock full of useful stuff, including some inspirational stories about women with breast cancer who used the Internet to obtain information, referrals, and/or emotional support.Virgil Simons--himself a prostate cancer survivor--has published an excellent Online Guide to Fighting Prostate Cancer on the World Wide Web.
