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| Cancer and Breast Cancer Information | General Medical Sites & Glossaries |
| Breast Cancer in Men | |
| Family, Attitudes, Emotions, Essays | Personal Sites of Other Fighters |
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Cancer & Breast Cancer Information Links |
| The Breast Cancer Site (contributed by Cathy) |
| Oncolink cancer super-site, breast cancer section. |
| NABCO: National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations |
| NCI Clinical Trials (National Cancer Institute). |
| BreastCancer.Net (The Breast
Cancer Network) Great, late-breaking news, and they also offer the (free) BreastCancer.Net Newsletter. |
| Purdue Research Foundation: Introduction to Chemotherapy Chemotherapy Drug Groups. |
| New England Journal of Medicine breast cancer articles. |
| The Breast Tutorial, created by Dr. William H. Wohlberg, professor of Surgery and Human Oncology at the University of Wisconsin, and his third year students. There is also a more layman-oriented version of this site. |
| Patient Centers' Breast Cancer Center at http://www.patientcenters.com/breastcancer -- very comprehensive, and has the rare feature of providing a page of research links at http://www.patientcenters.com/breastcancer/research.html. |
| Steve Dunn has an enormously important site at CancerGuide, "How to Research the Medical Literature", at http://cancerguide.org/research.html. |
| Northwest Hospital's Seattle Breast Center at http://www.seattlebreastcenter.org -- lightweight compared to older sites. |
| Breast Cancer Awareness and Solution Network, TRICARE Region 3 and the Center for Total Access (Office of Health Affairs, Department of Defense): http://www.bce.army.mil/ -- also lightweight, but still under construction. |
The Susan G. Komen Foundation:
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| The Cancer Journal, including a comparative study of tumor markers. |
| Peter Waite's Breast Cancer Resource Center: A non-commercial resource with medical news, information, discussion newsgroups and message boards, links to related websites and medical search engines & directories for patients, friends and family of patients diagnosed with breast cancer and cancer-related disorders. |
| Rational Therapeutics Cancer Laboratories' Glossary of Cancer Terms. |
| Cancer Web provides substantive information on cancer risk, diagnosis, and treatment culled from current biomedical publications. |
| Australia's NHMRC National Breast Cancer Centre (NBCC) with all sorts of cancer information, including info on clinical trials. |
| MediConsult's list of books about breast cancer (contributed by Harriet Bograd). |
| New York Times' cancer site at http://www.nyt.com/specials/women/whome/breast_cancer.html. |
| The Internet Book of Gene Therapy at http://www.appleton-lange.com/genetherapy/. |
| Info on Navelbine (contributed by Scott Anderson). |
| An award-winning guide for patient guide for high-dose chemo (contributed by Karen Gray). |
| The National Lymphedema Network (contributed by Karen Gray). |
| And a don't-miss for anyone who's really serious about learning what cancer is (and the latest genetic news), in understandable terms, is Scientific American Magazine's September '95 issue. |
| See http://www.cs.nsw.gov.au/rpa/pet/intro/cancer.html for good, detailed information on the PET scan. |
| Fellow cancer fighters: See the "Current" page of Lehua's Refuge for a list of back letters talking about radiation, mastectomy, and other personal experiences with the treatments. |
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Links to General Medical Sites and Glossaries |
| MedicalStudent -- excellent textbooks and references. |
| National Library of Medicine, with a link to MEDLINE (which is now FREE). |
| Sapient Health Network: Chat rooms, bulletin boards, articles, news. You must register, but registration is free. Good breast cancer section. |
| MedicineNet: Medical dictionary, Diseases & Treatments, Pharmacy, News, Clinical trials, Ask the Experts, Links, Search. |
| Health World Online's Self-Care Central: Medline, Forums, Healing Center, Fitness Center, etc. |
| Family Internet's Family Health. |
| Health Answers. |
| TomBall Regional Hospital health information. |
| HealthFinder: Sorting through health information in cyberspace. |
| Check out doctors (there is a fee). |
| Tired of having people thrust at you shark cartilage, cat's claw, fungus tea, blue-green algae, melatonin, beta-carotene, DHEA, Tahitian noni, oil of primrose, essaic, ..... Check out the National Council against Health Fraud. |
| Coast to Coast Medical Resources Directory (products). |
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Breast Cancer in Men |
| Bob Stafford a site for breast cancer in men, http://interact.withus.com/interact/mbc (contributed by Karen Gray). |
| Bob also presents a newsgroup that covers breast cancer for men, which can be joined by sending an e-mail to listserv@maelstrom.stjohns.edu with the message 'subscribe malebc (your name)' in the BODY of the message. |
| Nysernet also has a newsgroup that covers breast cancer for men -- check out http://nysernet.org/bcic (contributed by Alexandra Koffman). |
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Family, Attitudes, Emotions, Essays |
| KidScope: How parents can tell children about cancer. |
| Sandra Weinhardt's bereavement links. |
| Cancer Fighting Humor (contributed by Gene Bridges). |
| Jocularity, the humour magazine for nurses (Journal of Nursing). |
| Karen Gray recommends "a wonderful little essay by Stephen Jay Gould on survival statistics called 'The Median Is Not the Message.' You can find it at http://cancerguide.org/median_not_msg.html Gould is a survivor of abdominal mesothelioma--a cancer with grim survival statistics. He discusses what he learned from those statistics and how he decided to regard himself after thinking about ... the nature of the statistics..." |
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Personal Sites of Other Fighters |
| Visit Pat Murray, a brave woman who will show you a reconstruction. |
| Jeri Walsh's inspiring Tree of Hope, honoring our friends who are fighting cancer. |
| Laura King, my friend from Cancer Forum. |
| Pat Curry, another forum-mate. |
| Janet Bernichon, another friend from Cancer Forum, whose site includes poetry and art about cancer. |
| Helena Robinson, another forum-mate, who details a personal journey with cancer. |
| Musetta Giles, a fellow cancer fighter. This site includes "Top 10 Reasons for Being Bald"! |
| Harriet Bograd, another forum-mate -- this site is rich in information and links, and also has a personal account of stem cell transplant. |
| Nick Hill's web site, with lots of cancer links. |
| And another forum-mate, the engaging Isabel Nunes. |
| Other cancer fighters' homepages, at Oncolink. |
| Darrel Kilius, MD: This site has many cancer links. |
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