WellnessWeb
Women’s Cancer Network
Yale Cancer Center
Mayo Clinic Cancer Resource Center
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Cancer and Work
cancerandcareers.org - A
resource for working women with cancer. This site offers useful
information for all people with cancer including a resource database
with hundreds of links.
Cancer Drug
Information
FDA list of approved cancer drugs
Drug Digest - web site operated
by Express Scripts - search tool serves up good information about drugs
and herbs.
What does that drug used for? FDA tool to find
approved uses for cancer drugs.
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Complementary and Alternative
Information
About Herbs, Botanicals and Other Products -
website offered by Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Offers
detailed information about herbs, interactions with chemotherapy agents
and evaluations of alternative or unproved cancer therapies.
National Center for Complementary and Alternative
Medicine - NIH website offers detailed patient information about
CAM.
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Drug Assistance Programs
RxHope.com is a website financially supported
by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. Consumer
registration required. The website will help you find company, state,
and federal programs that might help you get the cancer drugs you need
either free or at reduced cost.
RxAssist.org is a user friendly website offered
by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. A search page allows a visitor to
plug in a brand or generic drug name, or class of drug, to find out what
assistance programs covering that drug are available. Site also offers
links to search engines for state and federal drug assistance
programs.
Patient Advocate Foundation - Co-Pay Relief -
Program provides co-payment assistance for pharmaceutical products to
insured Americans who financially and medically qualify.
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Cancer Information for
Children
Bandaids and Blackboards - when chronic illness goes to
school.
Blood Counts explained
Childhood Cancers Web
Cancer Characters
Captain Chemo's Adventure
Parents Handbook for Children with
Cancer
Teens Living with Cancer
(TLC), - web site provides resources to support teens, their
families and friends. TLC focuses on challenging teen issues, presents
information about cancer and treatment written at teens' level of
interest, provides opportunities to interact with other teens living
with cancer, and offers links to relevant sites. Spanish site available
too.
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Support for Young Adults with
Cancer
Planet Cancer - website built for
and by young adult cancer survivors. Written and presented with the
edginess many young adults prefer, this site focuses on the issues
particularly relevant to this population.
Pregnant with Cancer - website of
a support group for women diagnosed with cancer while pregnant. Site
offers suggesting reading and regular newsletters.
Young Survival Coalition -
website built for and by young women with breast cancer. The site
offers a well attended message board where posts are answered relatively
promptly.
Caregivers
Caregivers.com online version of the magazine
additional message boards and chat
Eldercare.gov - website operated by the US
Administration on Aging. Offers help in finding care support services
for the elderly.
National Family Caregivers
Association
Strength for Caring is national campaign
launched by the pharmaceutical company Ortho Biotech offering community
based training programs for caregivers of cancer patients. Website
offers a list of programs and online resources.
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Emotional Support
American Cancer Society Cancer
Survivor's Network - online community that gives voice to the
hopes and fears on cancer survivors and their loved ones. Registered
users can build their own web pages, share stories, and take online
quizzes to help them assess their needs.
ACS' Man to Man - Support group especially designed for men with
cancer.
ACS' Reach to Recovery - Support for breast cancer survivors.
Bloch Cancer
Foundation - Online form offers to match patients with survivors of
the same type of cancer.
Bladder Cancer Advocacy
Network - Runs online support forum once a week and provides
information to other support groups. Also operates in person support
groups in select cities.
Cancer Information and Counseling Line - Telephone counseling line
operated by the University of Colorado Cancer Center.
Facing Our
Risk for Cancer Empowerment - Web site offers online breast cancer
support groups, and, with regional groups around the country,
face-to-face support activities.
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society - Web site offers online chat support
groups during specific hours.
Lung
Cancer Alliance - Online survivors community offers bulletin boards,
chats, and blogs.
Planet Cancer - web site focuses on young adults with cancer.
Pregnant with Cancer - Web site offers method for contacting other
women who have been pregnant with cancer.
US Too - Offers
emotional support for men with prostate cancer. Operated over 300 state
chapters across the U.S., including support for Gay men.
The Wellness Community - Web site offers information about free
support programs conducted in communities around the nation. Includes
online discussion forums, information about nutrition and spiritual well
being.
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Financial and
Legal Assistance
The Cancer and Careers website offres a large
database of resources for financial and insurance information.
The Consumers Guide For Getting and
Keeping Health Insurance is produced by the Institute for Health
Care Research and Policy at Georgetown University. The
healthinsuranceinfo.net homepage allows you to download a PDF file or
view state reports online. The PDF download will require Adobe Acrobat
Reader (a free download) on your computer. This is an excellent resource
to help you understand your rights and protections.
govbenefits.gov - Do you qualify for government
assistance? This website, launched by the US Department of Labor, walks
you through some questions and answers and then tells you what you may
qualify for and where to find more information.
HealthCareCoach.com - This website is a project
of the National Health Law Program, a non-profit legal organization
dedicated to informing consumers about their legal rights in the
health care arena.
The Partnership for Prescription Assistance is
a service launched by the Pharmaceutical Research and
Manufacturer's Association (PhRMA) to help match drug assistance
programs with patients in need. The site is free and according to PhRMA,
all information you enter is completely confidential.
Patient Advocate Foundation - Co-Pay Relief -
Program provides co-payment assistance for pharmaceutical products to
insured Americans who financially and medically qualify.
Lab Tests Explained
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Labtestsonline.org - This web site offers detailed information about hundreds of lab tests -
what they are, what they are used to measure, how they are taken, prep
required, etc. You can also get a rundown of most typical tests
prescribed for diagnosing or managing different cancers. If you don't
find a specific test you are looking for, put the name in the search
field on the web site home page. The web site is the product
of a collaboration among professional societies representing the
clinical laboratory community.
The American
Society for Clinical Laboratory Science will explain your lab
results for free. This link takes you to a form on their web site. It is
important to read the disclaimer about the information they provide.
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A word of caution: Many websites offer translation tools to
translate their pages into other languages such as Spanish, French,
German, etc.
Be careful with these tools.
Medical translation requires special attention and expertise. A computer
tool is not likely to do justice to the nuances involved in the
discussion of medical topics. In some cases, the translation could
be incorrect and have implications for your health.
Resources En Espaņol and Other
Languages:
American Cancer Society: http://www.cancer.org/docroot/ESP/ESP_0.asp
National Cancer Institute: http://www.cancer.gov/espanol/
Medline Plus health information: http://medlineplus.gov/spanish/
The
National Human Genome Research Institute Spanish language audio glossary
of terms: http://www.genome.gov/sglossary.cfm.
Partnership for Caring family resource on end of
life issues: http://www.caringinfo.org/files/public/eol-aspectos-clinicos.pdf
CancerLinks - Information found on this site is
accessible in 12 languages, from Arabic to Swedish.
FDA's Oncology Reference Tools in various languages
including Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Arabic and Japanese. Once
you arrive on the site, click on the language you want.
Health Information - Translations
- website by Ohio State University Medical Center, and other
contributors offers a wide range of topics related to cancer,
treatments, home care, etc in Chinese (2x), French, English, Hindi,
Japanese, Korean, Russian, Somali, Spanish and Ukrainian. The
foreign language documents include english translation for English
speakers working with people who speak or read the foreign
language.
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Pain
American Academy of Pain Management
American Chronic Pain Association - a support
group
American College Physicians 's Guide to Cancer
Pain
American Pain Foundation
American Pain Society
CancerPain.org
City of Hope Pain/Palliative Care Resource
Center
Pain.com
Partners Against Pain - this web site offers
patient and professional information about measuring and managing pain.
Very easy to use with valuable tools.
The National Cancer Institute
The American Cancer Society
University of Pennsylvania Cancer
Center
Never-Ending Squirrel Tale
- web site for parents of children with cancer.
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Side Effects
Chemocare.com is a site sponsored
by OrthoBiotech with content developed by the Cleveland Clinic Cancer
Center. It provides excellent information about coping with side effects
common during chemotherapy treatment.
Support Groups
Gilda’s Club
Cancer Care
Cancer Hope Network - Pairs
cancer patients and/or their families with volunteers who "have been
there." Click on the "Who We Are" link on the home page to learn more
about this free program available to anyone living in the United
States.
Lance Armstrong Foundation
Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Family
Alliance
Teens Living with Cancer (TLC) -
website provides resources to support teens, their families and friends.
TLC focuses on challenging teen issues, presents information about
cancer and treatment written at teens' level of interest, provides
opportunities to interact with other teens living with cancer, and
offers links to relevant sites.
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