Cancer Care
Internet Resources for Cancer Patients

Mountain States Tumor Institute provides this listing of Internet resources as a service to our patients and their families. The information provided is intended for educational purposes only, and should not be construed as medical advice. Please contact your personal physician or other health care professional should you have questions regarding information retrieved from these or any other resources.

National Cancer Institute

URL: http://www.nci.nih.gov/ The National Cancer Institute is responsible for conducting and supporting research on cancer. There is extensive information on this Web site about the NCI and its programs. A valuable section of the site called "CancerNet" contains a wealth of information about cancer, treatment options, detection, prevention, genetics, supportive care, clinical trials, and a "kid"s page". There is also a Spanish-language button. If you are looking for information about any of these topics, we suggest you go directly to: CancerNet.

CancerNet

URL: http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov (see above) CancerNet is the patient and public section of the Web page of the National Cancer Institute that contains information on cancer, treatment options, detection, prevention, genetics, supportive care, clinical trials, and a "kid"s page". There is also a Spanish-language button.

American Cancer Society (ACS)

URL: http://www.cancer.org The American Cancer Society is a national organization supporting cancer patients. There is extensive information on this Web site about cancer, treatment options, etc.

CureSearch

http://www.curesearch.org/ CureSearch unites the world's largest childhood cancer research organization, the Children's Oncology Group, and the National Childhood Cancer Foundation through our shared mission to cure childhood cancer. Research is the key to cure.

National Cancer Institute Prostate, Lung, Colorectal & Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial "Interesting Links" Page

URL: http://www.dcpc.nci.nih.gov/PLCO/ The NCI"s Prostate, Lung, Colorectal & Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial (called "PLCO") is a national clinical trial that will determine if screening can reduce the number of deaths from these forms of cancer. Besides extensive information on the trial itself, this page also has a useful "links" page with connections to a large number of other resources. MSTI is participating in this NCI trial. For more information, call 1-800-716-0499.

The Journal of the National Cancer Institute

URL: http://www.icic.nci.hih.gov/jnci/jnci_issues.html The Journal of the National Cancer Institute is geared towards professionals in the field of cancer research. However, there are informational pieces and articles that are understandable to the lay person, especially if you are doing your own research on some specific form of cancer or treatment. Issues from the last four years are available on-line; for earlier issues, contact NCI through the numbers provided on their site.

ASCO On-Line

URL: http://www.asco.org/ The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) is an organization that represents more than 10,000 cancer professionals worldwide, and offers scientific and educational programs and other initiatives to foster the exchange of information about cancer. "ASCO On-Line" offers services for both professionals and people with cancer, including extensive information on its "patient" page. The ASCO site also has a "search index", which can help you easily locate topics such as clinical trials, local resources, etc.

OncoLink

URL: http://www.oncolink.upenn.edu/ OncoLink is a project of the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center, and is an excellent source of the latest and most newsworthy developments relating to cancer, research and treatment. OncoLink provides extensive articles and references from all the major news organization (including wire services), the major and specialized cancer-related journals, and cancer-related research. To ease your task, OncoLink also has a "search index" at the bottom of the first page.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

URL: http://www.cdc.gov The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (still called the "CDC") is an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services of the U.S. government. CDC"s mission is to "promote health and quality of life by controlling disease", and has a "Cancer Prevention and Control Program," with articles and papers on the incidence of various types of cancers and prevention efforts. (Note: these focus primarily on breast, cervical, prostate, skin, and colorectal cancers.)

Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention

URL: http://www.yourcancerrisk.harvard.edu/index.htm Estimate your cancer risk and get other cancer information.

Medicine OnLine

URL: http://www.meds.com/ Medicine OnLine is an information service of UtiliTech, Inc. that "provides cancer-related educational content, discussion groups, and links to other related information services." This page contains an excellent glossary of cancer-related terms, and its general cancer information tends to focus on leukemia and lung cancer.

Patient Advocacy Groups Home Page

URL: http://infonet.welch.jhu.edu/advocacy.html This is a section of a Web page called "InfoNet", which is a project of Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions. It lists the toll-free phone numbers of more than 100 national disease-related organizations, organized by disease. Scrolling down, you will see that the "cancer" section contains 26 listings, including many organizations familiar to an informaed reader (for example, the Susan B. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation). This is a helpful list for people who would rather call an organization than find information about it on the Internet.

CanSearch: A Guide to Cancer Resources

URL: http://seidata.com/~marriage/rcancer.html CanSearch is a long list of "cancer resources" on the Web that makes up in volume what it lacks in description. The numerous links are broken down into sections, but after that, the reader is left to his or her own to figure out what may be on the other end of the link itself (for example, "Hypermedia Clinical Practice guidelines for Cancer Pain" is next to "Medical Matrix Cancer Information"). However, similar to the Web itself, one can find links to many important resources, once they are sorted out.

General Nutrition Sites

Nutrition Navigator

URL: http://www.navigator.tufts.educ Nutrition Navigator is a rating guide to nutrition Web sites put out by Tufts University. Sites are ranked "among the best," "better than most," "average," and "not recommended." The summary on each site includes the type of organization running the site, the intended audience, the rankings and commentary on what the site contains. The ratings are grouped according to the intended audience – health professionals, educators, kids, consumers, parents, people with special dietary needs, women and journalists. Many summaries link directly to the site being reviewed. Over the next two years, Tufts plans to evaluate more than 1,000 sites. Nutrition Navigator is one of the best places to start when looking for reliable nutrition information.

American Dietetic Association

URL: http://www.eatright.org This is the American Dietetic Association"s (ADA) home page. Once you are there, click on the Hot Topics icon. You will find nutrition fact sheets, position papers that explain ADA"s stance on issues that affect the nutritional status of the public and press releases. This is a good place to check out current nutrition issues.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

URL: http://www.healthfinder.gov Health-finder is a gateway consumer health and human services information web site from the U.S. government. Click on the search icon and then choose nutrition from the list of topics. This will bring up a long list of other nutrition-related sites to choose from.

Meals For You

URL: http://www.mealsforyou.com The Meals For You site has thousands of recipes, complete with nutrition breakdowns. Here you can adjust a recipe"s ingredient amounts to fit the number of servings you want to make and get a shopping list for all the ingredients you need. The search function at this site is helpful, too. You can find recipes by ingredient, category, nutrient content or popularity. The recipes also provide you with preparation and cooking times – a great help for busy people.

Sites for Kids

Nutrition Café

URL: http://www.exhibits.pacsci.org/nutrition/ Listed as "better than most" by Tuft"s Nutrition Navigator, this site offers interactive nutrition adventures for children. Nutrition Café has three different activities to try: "Grab-A-Grape," a Jeopardy!-type nutrition quiz game; "Nutrition Sleuth," where seven nutrition mysteries are waiting to be solved; and "Have-A-Bite Café," a place to build a meal and see its nutrient breakdown. Nutrition Café does a wonderful job of making nutrition fun to learn.