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JEFFSelects: Cancer and Oncology
- American Cancer
Society (ACS)
Contains information about its major programs such as the Great American
Smokeout and the Breast Cancer Network, meetings, publications, local
offices, employment opportunities, health guidelines and more.
- American
Cancer Society Statistics
General current statistics are available on the ACS Web site from
1997 to present. Statistics include site-specific, prevention,
detection, and minority group cancer incidence. A limited number
of statistics are in provided in Spanish. For more detailed statistics
covering a longer span, use the ACS journal, CA: A Cancer Journal
for Clinicians, whose annual January/February issue has compiled
state-by-state cancer statistics since 1967 (free
online from 1990 to present, SML 3rd floor print collection
for older volumes)
- American Lung Association
(ALA)
This site has 80+ documents relating to lung health, 40+ fact sheets,
ALA news articles, and medical and legislative updates.
- American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)
Practice guidelines, practice management tips, patient education materials, news, core oncology curriculum, Oncology References - links to PubMed citations for articles deemed standard-of-care references.
- Association
of Cancer Online Resources (ACOR)
A resource for patients and their families for all types of cancer.
This site includes links to support groups, advocacy organzations,
listservs; FAQs, publications, and disease-specific information.
- Cancer Care
This site provides information and educational resources for patients,
families, and health care professionals on dealing with and caring
for cancer. In addition, there is a section for members of the media
to support writing about cancer-related topics.
- Cancer
Gateway (BioMed Central)
A special subject-focused collection of articles on cancer-related
topics from 130 BioMed Central journals and Web sites.
- Cancer
Genome Anatomy Project (NCI)
The Project's goal is to to achieve a comprehensive molecular characterization
of normal, precancerous, and malignant cells. To this end gene sequences
are maintained as "Library Entries" in a database and downloaded in
a variety of formats. Over 15 types of cancer are represented with
thousands of gene sequences.
- CancerGuide: Steve
Dunn's Cancer Information Page
This site provides thoughtful information about cancer in general,
diagnoses, clinical trials, therapies, and researching the literature.
- Cancer.gov
(National Cancer Institute)
The National Cancer Institute's home page provides researchers, health professionals and the public with information and referrals for cancer topics, clinical trials, cancer statistics and funding opportunities.
- Dictionary
of Cancer Terms
Browse or search over 3,500 cancer and medicine terms from the
National Cancer Institute.
- Cancer Topic searches
Select options to retrieve prepared literature searches of PubMed, limited by type of cancer and date of publication. Searches can then be further limited by patient age group, etc.
- Cancer Handbook
Provides a comprehensive overview of scientific and clinical information in major areas of cancer biology and medicine.
- CureSearch
A collaboration between the Children's Cancer Group (CCG) and the
National Childhood Cancer Foundation (NCCF), this site contains feature
stories, facts sheets, a directory of the CCG member institutions,
and research protocols. Part of the Web site is limited to members
of the CCG.
- Hypermedia
Assistant for Cancer Pain Managment (Univ. of Utah)
The Pain Research Center at the University of Utah provides a home
provides access to the AHCPR Clinical Practice Guideline for cancer
pain management. It also includes a Java-based drug calculator, movies
about related topics, a local search engine, and links to related
Internet sites.
- Kimmel Cancer Center
at Thomas Jefferson University
Information about the Jefferson Cancer Network, clinical trials, the
tumor bank, Ph.D. programs, staff, and news stories.
- National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN)
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network is a not-for-profit alliance of 21 of the world’s leading cancer centers dedicated to improving the quality and effectiveness of care provided to patients with cancer. NCCN develops scientific, evaluative information, such as the NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology™, to inform and improve decisions that can lead to better care.
- OncoLink (Univ.
of Pennsylvania)
A multimedia resource designed to disseminate information, educate
both professionals and consumers, and provide for collection of information
relating to oncology. Containing FAQs, clinical trials information,
conference notices and more; the site is naviagable via either a disease
or specialty oriented menu. The site is searchable.
- SearchMedica (CMP Healthcare)
Combines fulltext from CMPMedica publications (such as Consultant, or Psychiatric Times) with citations from PubMed and other web sources, with special focus on evidence-based materials and patient education. Topical sections include Oncology/Hematology.
- SEER (NCI)
SEER stands for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results. A service
of the National Cancer Institute, SEER provides trend information
about incidence, mortality and survival from specificed populations
around the U.S.
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