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 Free Support for Cancer Freshmen by Cancer Graduates

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WEB SITES OF INTEREST

There are so many cancer web sites that try to help in their own way - perhaps by selling you a "NEW MIRACLE BREAKTHROUGH" - that it can be overwhelming. So we have tried to select out a very few of the best, in terms of helpfulness and higher than average reliability. We have avoided commercial sites that want to sell you something.

The sites listed here can serve as a switchboard to many more sites that they recommend. Click on the blue web site address to go directly there. Normally you should be able to return to the original referring site by using the back button. But just in case, it may pay to jot down or bookmark the sites you find most helpful as you go along.

One final warning. Even the most prestigious, most sincere, most careful web sites can be wrong for your situation. That's why there are second opinions.

BEGINNERS' WEB SITES

We plan to become one of the best sites where cancer freshmen can get a logical and comprehensive start. Meanwhile here are a couple other places to begin. Unfortunately both sites are unfamiliar with the power of legitimate alternative cancer therapy, but we will recommend other sites for that.

• CancerGuide By Steve Dunn at www.cancerguide.org
• CanSearch: Online Guide to Cancer Resources at www.cansearch.org

CONVENTIONAL THERAPY WEB SITES

• The government's National Cancer Institute is the premier web site for conventional cancer information, including treatment descriptions (PDQ), literature, clinical trials, etc. www.nci.nih.gov
• Medline Plus for laypeople and Medline for professionals provide access to those medical journals indexed by the National Library of Medicine. This may be the world's largest medical library, but if you don't find it here, it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. There are countless other specialized or international libraries. www.nlm.nih.gov
• Spanish language cancer information is available at the New York On-line Access to Health (NOAH) web site. www.noah_health.org

ALTERNATIVE THERAPY WEB SITES

• Congress forced the National Institute of Health to investigate alternative medicine. As a result NIH started with the Office of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (OCCAM). www.occam.nci.nih.gov
• Results were so good that they have now added the larger National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM). www.nccam.nih.gov
• The University of Pittsburgh has hosted a pioneering web site for six years called The Alternative Medicine Homepage. www.pitt.edu/~cbw/altm.html
• Dr. Bower's Complementary and Alternative Medicine Home Page furnishes an extensive list of other alternative web sites. www.people.virginia.edu/~pjb3s/Complementary_Practices.html

BOTH CONVENTIONAL AND ALTERNATIVE THERAPY

• Patient's National Cancer Institute (That's us) reports on both types of treatments, used separately or in combination, from the perspective of recovered patients who have actually used them successfully. www.PatientsNCI.org

• Integrating both types of treatments appears to be the new direction for cancer therapy in America. When you find more sites that feature both schools of medicine, please let us know so we can add them to this list.

LOCAL RESOURCES FOR CANCER SUPPORT

• Local support groups are often organized by type of cancer. For example, in San Diego, the largest patient support group for prostate cancer is the INFORMED PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP. They maintain an informative website at www.IPCSG.org. They meet each month to hear an expert speaker, to ask questions and share experiences.

• Patients following an anti-cancer diet can also find support from VEGAN interest groups.

• Hospitals and government agencies can provide names and web sites of local support organizations.

• One outstanding organization is "The Wellness Community" located in many cities nationwide. The Wellness Community provides a wealth of free services for cancer patients, including support groups, lectures, tailored exercises, meditations, etc. They can be located from this national web site: www.TheWellnessCommunity.org

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