American Institute for Cancer Research
Diet, Nutrition and Cancer Prevention
"...site you'll find news, research updates, recipes, free publications and tips for good health ó information to help you live a healthier, cancer-free life."
Association of Cancer Online Resources
"...offers access to 133 electronic mailing lists and a variety of unique websites."
CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians
"...is a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society providing cancer care professionals with up-to-date information on all aspects of cancer diagnosis, treatment, and prevention."
- Cancer Statistics, 2003
CA Cancer J Clin 2003; 53:5-26
"Each year, the American Cancer Society estimates the number of new cancer cases and deaths expected in the United States in the current year, and compiles the most recent data on cancer incidence, mortality, and survival by using incidence data from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and mortality data from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)." - Cancer Statistics for African Americans
Ghafoor et al.
CA Cancer J Clin 2002; 52:326-341
Cancer411.org
"...is the result of the combined efforts of two organizations, The Rory Foundation, and The Joyce Foundation. The mission of Cancer 411 is to put cancer patients, their families and doctors in touch with the critical information they need as quickly as possible."
CancerEducation.com
Includes Patient & Family Center ; Professional Center ; Oncology Week in Review ; Corporate Information.
Cancerfacts.com
"This online resource for cancer patients, their families, and caregivers is dedicated to delivering accurate and personalized information at a time of need. The Cancer Profilerô interactive decision support tools help people with cancer make informed treatment decisions for an optimal outcome."
Cancerpage.com
"Created for patients and their loved ones, we are your trusted source for the latest news, research, and information on prevention, detection, and treatment. We're here as a complete cancer information and community resource to help at a time when you or your loved ones may be frightened or uncertain."
CancerTrack
Includes Cancer News updated every 15 minutes from over 2000 sources.
Sections include: Cancer Types ; Medical Information.
Healthfinder - Cancer
A gateway consumer health and human services information web site from the United States government
Imaginis
"The Breast Health Specialists"
"...is an independent, award-winning, comprehensive resource for news and information on breast cancer prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment and related women's health topics such as hormone replacement therapy (HRT), multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, and ovarian cancer. Imaginis.com also contains extensive information about medical procedures such as angiography, biopsy, CT, MR, nuclear medicine, ultrasound, x-ray imaging and radiotherapy."
Lung Cancer Online
"...is a gateway to lung cancer resources for the benefit of people with lung cancer and their families. It is intended to facilitate the time consuming and often frustrating process of learning about lung cancer, treatment options and support services."
By Karen Parles
MEDtropolis
"We inform, educate and entertain kids and adults alike in the areas of healthcare and healthy living..."
Sections include: Resources ; Treatments Options ; Family & Friends ; Health Options ; Health Communities ; Living With... ; Health Conditions ; Health References ; Cancer Resources.
- Cancer.gov
"Your Gateway to the most recent and accurate cancer information from the National Cancer Institute, a component of the National Institutes of Health."
"Information on this site is reviewed and revised regularly by experts in oncology and related specialties and is based on the latest research in the field. Most information on CancerNet comes from PDQ, NCIís comprehensive cancer database. PDQ information is generated and maintained by Editorial Boards who specialize in cancer information."- CANCERLIT
"...is a bibliographic database that contains more than 1.5 million citations and abstracts from over 4,000 different sources including biomedical journals, proceedings, books, reports, and doctoral theses. Produced by the National Cancer Institute's International Cancer Information Center, CANCERLIT has been in existence for more than twenty years and contains references to the vast realm of cancer literature published from the 1960's to the present. CANCERLIT is updated with more than 8,000 records every month... CANCERLIT, like other bibliographic databases, does not provide full-text articles. It provides the title, authors, source, abstract (when available), and other basic information about the articles so you may quickly sort through them to choose those that are of interest." - PDQ - NCI's Comprehensive Cancer Database
"...contains peer-reviewed summaries on cancer treatment, screening, prevention, genetics, and supportive care; a registry of approximately 1,800 open and 10,300 closed cancer clinical trials from around the world; and directories of physicians, professionals who provide genetics services, and organizations that provide cancer care."
- CANCERLIT
- Newscenter
- Science Behind the News
- Understanding Cancer
"Discusses and illustrates what cancer is, explains the link between genes and cancer, and discusses what is known about the causes, detection and diagnosis of the disease." - Understanding Gene Testing
"Illustrates what genes are, explains how mutations occur and are identified within genes, and discusses the benefits and limitations of gene testing for cancer and other disorders."
- Understanding Cancer
- Science Behind the News
- Cancer Patient Education Network
"This site is intended for cancer patient educators and health professionals. In it, you will find valuable program planning and educational resources for your colleagues and patients. The NCI-sponsored Cancer Patient Education Network (CPEN) is an organization of cancer patient education leaders from NCI-designated comprehensive and clinical centers nationwide. - CancerTrials
"...provides information and news about cancer clinical trials, for cancer patients and their families, people at risk for cancer, and health professionals." - NCI Research Resources
A Directory of Research Tools and Services for Cancer Researchers
Section include: Animal Resources ; Cancer Communication Resources ; Clinical Trials ; Drugs, Chemicals and Biologicals ; Epidemiological Resources ; Family Registries/Cancer Genetics Resources ; Genomic Resources ; NCI Intramural Research ; Research & Manufacturing Services ; Scientific Computing Resources ; Specimen Resources. - Plans and Priorities for Cancer Research
National Institutes of Health - Office of Science Education (OSE)
- NIH Curriculum Supplement Series
"...are interactive teaching units that combine cutting-edge science research discoveries from the National Institutes of Health, one of the world's foremost medical research centers, with state-of-the-art instructional materials."- Cell Biology and Cancer (Grades 9-12)
"The first objective is to introduce students to major concepts related to the development and impact of cancer...second objective is to convey to students the relationship between basic biomedical research and the improvement of personal and public health."
- Cell Biology and Cancer (Grades 9-12)
NLM Gateway Search
"The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus and DIRLINE."
- National Library of Medicine
OncoLink - (dead link)
University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center
"OncoLink is designed to make it easy for the general public to navigate through the pages to obtain the information that they want. The home page has buttons and hypertext links. If you click on the buttons or the underlined text with your mouse, you will go directly to your area of interest...Through OncoLink you can get comprehensive information about specific types of cancer, updates on cancer treatments and news about research advances. We update the information everyday and provide information at various levels, from introductory to in-depth."
Oncology Tools
Oncology Tools contains a variety of information related to cancer and approved cancer drug therapies...Rather than grouping all drug product information together, this web page is a first effort at pulling together information by disease category which we hope will make this information easier to find and use
- Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Pancreatica.org
Confronting Pancreatic Cancer
Sections include: Clinical Trials Database ; Pancreas Cancer News and Archives ; Newswire Services - Pancreas Cancer ; Frequently Asked Questions.
ReproLine - Reproduction Health Online
"...website is tailored to the daily needs of reproductive healthcare providers, trainers and faculty."
Sections include: Family Planning ; Maternal & Neonatal Health ; Cervical Cancer ; Related Health Topics ; Tools for Trainers ; The Reading Room ; Related Websites.
- JHPIEG, an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University
- Sequencing Projects
Projects include: Human Genome ; Non-Human Vertebrates ; Worm ; Fungi ; Microbial Genomes ; Protozoa ; Others.- Cancer Genome Project
Data Resources Include: Cancer Gene Census ; COSMIC ; CGP Resequencing Studies ; CGP Cancer Cell Line Project ; CGP Copy Number Analysis in Cancer.
- Cancer Genome Project
University of California, San Diego - Cancer Center
Digital Library
Association of Cancer Online Resources
"...offers access to 99 electronic mailing lists and a variety of unique websites."
"...aims to serve as a focus for communication in all areas of biology and medicine relevant to breast cancer, with special emphasis on its genetic, biochemical, and cellular bases. Articles explore the biological basis of breast cancer and the clinical application of this knowledge. Clinical studies will usually be phase I and II clinical trials. All articles are published in full online, and selected articles are published in the bimonthly print issue."
Research articles are available online free of charge.
Cancer Control
Journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center
Cancer Research (free 1 year after publication)
American Association for Cancer Research
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Chemotherapy and You
A Guide to Self-Help During Cancer Treatment
"This booklet is for patients who are receiving chemotherapy for cancer. It describes what to expect during chemotherapy and what you can do to take care of yourself during and after treatment."
From the National Cancer Institute
Electronic Journal of Oncology (EJO)
"...is an exclusively electronic peer-reviewed journal containing original publications in the fields of oncology and neoplastic hematology. The scope of the Journal encompasses basic research, translational research as well as clinical trials and observations."
Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology
Full-text free six months after publication.
National Academy Press (free online versions)
- 2003
- Childhood Cancer Survivorship: Improving Care and Quality of Life
Maria Hewitt, Susan L. Weiner, and Joseph V. Simone, Editors, National Research Council, 2003. - Improving Palliative Care: We Can Take Better Care of People With Cancer
National Research Council, 2003.
- Childhood Cancer Survivorship: Improving Care and Quality of Life
- 2002
- Cancer and the Environment: Gene-Environment Interactions
Institute of Medicine, 2002. - Veterans and Agent Orange:
Herbicide/Dioxin Exposure and Acute Myelogenous Leukemia in the Children of Vietnam Veterans
Committee to Review the Evidence Regarding the Link Between Exposure to Agent Orange and Acute Myelogenous Leukemia in the Children of Vietnam Veterans, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, 2002.
- Cancer and the Environment: Gene-Environment Interactions
- 2001
- Clearing the Smoke: The Science Base for Tobacco Harm
Kathleen Stratton, Padma Shetty, Robert Wallace, and Stuart Bondurant, Editors, Committee to Assess the Science Base for Tobacco Harm Reduction, Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, 2001. - Improving Palliative Care for Cancer
Kathleen M. Foley and Hellen Gelband, Editors, National Cancer Policy Board, National Research Council, 2001.
- Clearing the Smoke: The Science Base for Tobacco Harm
- 2000
- Developing Technologies for Early Detection of Breast Cancer: Summary of Public Workshop #2
Committee on the Early Detection of Breast Cancer, National Cancer Policy Board, Institute of Medicine, National Research Council, 2000.
- Developing Technologies for Early Detection of Breast Cancer: Summary of Public Workshop #2
- 1991
- Oral Contraceptives and Breast Cancer
Committee on the Relationship Between Oral Contraceptives and Breast Cancer, Division of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, 1991.
- Oral Contraceptives and Breast Cancer
- CANCERLIT - (dead link) "...is a bibliographic database that contains more than 1.5 million citations and abstracts from over 4,000 different sources including biomedical journals, proceedings, books, reports, and doctoral theses. Produced by the National Cancer Institute's International Cancer Information Center, CANCERLIT has been in existence for more than twenty years and contains references to the vast realm of cancer literature published from the 1960's to the present. CANCERLIT is updated with more than 8,000 records every month... CANCERLIT, like other bibliographic databases, does not provide full-text articles. It provides the title, authors, source, abstract (when available), and other basic information about the articles so you may quickly sort through them to choose those that are of interest."
- Cooperative Breast Cancer Tissue Resource Database (CBCTR)
"...to provide researchers with access to primary breast cancer tissues with associated clinical and followup data. The CBCTR can provide researchers with formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded primary breast cancer specimens,and their associated pathologic and clinical information." - PDQ - NCI's Comprehensive Cancer Database
"...contains peer-reviewed summaries on cancer treatment, screening, prevention, genetics, and supportive care; a registry of approximately 1,800 open and 10,300 closed cancer clinical trials from around the world; and directories of physicians, professionals who provide genetics services, and organizations that provide cancer care."
NLM Gateway Search
"The NLM Gateway allows users to search in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). The current Gateway searches MEDLINE/PubMed, OLDMEDLINE, LOCATORplus, AIDS Meetings, Health Services Research Meetings, HSRProj, MEDLINEplus and DIRLINE."
National Library of Medicine
OncoLink
University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center
Association, Societies, Organizations and Institutes
American Association for Cancer Research
American Institute for Cancer Research
Diet, Nutrition and Cancer Prevention
"...site you'll find news, research updates, recipes, free publications and tips for good health ó information to help you live a healthier, cancer-free life."
American Society of Clinical Oncology
Association of Pediatric Oncology Nursing
European Association for Cancer Research
European Cancer Prevention Organization
European Society for Medical Oncology
Federation of European Cancer Societies
Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention
International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer
International Society for Preventive Oncology
International Union Against Cancer
- CancerTrials
"...provides information and news about cancer clinical trials, for cancer patients and their families, people at risk for cancer, and health professionals." - Center for Cancer Research
- Division of Cancer Biology
- Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics
- Division of Cancer Prevention
- Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis
- Division of Extramural Activities
National Foundation for Cancer Research
Organization of European Cancer Institutes
Pancreatica.org
Confronting Pancreatic Cancer
Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research
U.K. National Health Service (NHS)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
University of California, San Diego - Cancer Center
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