Resource Links
Cancer sites
- The American Cancer Society homepage: http://www.cancer.org/docroot/home/index.asp
- Sponsored by the American Cancer Society, this page is the Cancer Survivors Network. "An amazing page of people whose lives have been touched by cancer" - patients, survivors, caregivers. It includes medical help, diets, discussions. Among other things, if you have ever wondered how a cancer patient deals with the day to day worries of when/if the cancer will return, this is one of the best places to do some reading (and lots of links to other sites): http://www.acscsn.org/
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center homepage: http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/44.cfm
- Cure - an on-line magazine that now has a hard-copy counterpart (Heal). It excels at blending medical and patient points of view: http://www.curetoday.com/
- Cancercare - an unusual non-profit group whose stated mission "to provide free professional help to people with all cancers through counseling, education, information and referral and direct financial assistance." Among other things, the web pages tells patients about ongoing research studies and organizations that provide money to support treatment - money to the patients, not the physicians: http://www.cancercare.org/
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