Links and Resources
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Brain Tumor Sites
Breast Cancer Sites
- Association
of Cancer Online Resources: cancer information system
currently offers access to 99 electronic mailing lists and
a variety of unique websites.
- breastcancer.org
- Breast
Cancer Action (BCA): Breast Cancer Action carries the
voices of people affected by breast cancer to inspire and
compel the changes necessary to end the breast cancer epidemic.
Their site is full of information you will be hard-pressed
to find anywhere else.
- Breast
Cancer Classroom Screen
- Breast
Cancer Fund: In response to the public health crisis
of breast cancer, The Breast Cancer Fund identifies - and
advocates for elimination of - the environmental and other
preventable causes of the disease.
- SusanLoveMD.org
- Susun
Weed: Breast Health! the Wise Woman Way by Susun Weed
is for women who want to maintain breast health and for
women diagnosed with breast cancer. This site empowers women
in their health care choices.
Cancer Sites
- American
Cancer Society: Information related to organization,
and some news and updates. Connection was quick and download.
- Cancerlinks:
A very thorough and useful set of links to hundreds of cancer
sites.
- The Cancer Forums: A website for discussion about any type of cancer, including lung cancer, breast cancer, leukemia, multiple myeloma, and much more.
- Center
Watch: Has information regarding clinical trials worldwide,
and drug therapies recently approved by the FDA.
- Medical
Online: This site's database provides medical information
to health care providers and consumers. Requires users to
register and login.
- Oncolink
is sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center.
An encyclopedic web site, it has links and references on
every imaginable aspect of cancer, from the latest in research,
to pharmaceutical breakthroughs, psychosocial support, and
hundreds of links to other sites. A useful place to
begin your search, if you would like to familiarize yourself
with the availability of cancer offerings online.
Childhood Cancer Sites
- Candlelighters
Childhood Cancer Family Alliance: Goals include promoting
childhood cancer awareness, research, and education. Also
provides emotional, educational and practical support to
children with cancer and their famililes.
- Planet Cancer - a world of support and resource for young people with cancer
- SpeciaLove
is a resource devoted to parents of children with cancer
and is oriented toward family aspects of childhood cancer.
Started in 1983 by Tom and Sheila Baker, who lost their
13 year old daughter to cancer. Has info about Summer Camps
for kids with cancer, along with other information and support.
Clinical Trial Sites
Complementary Medicine Sites
- Annie
Appleseed Project - Complementary Breast cancer therapies
from a patient’s perspective.
- "Ask
Dr. Weil" - Andrew Weil has his own website.
- Cancer
Control Society provides a list of practitioners offering
specific alternative therapies. They also have a list of
patients who are willing to talk about their experiences
using alternative medicine.
- The
Cancer Cure Foundation is a non-profit organization
providing a list of clinics in the U.S. offering alternative
therapies. The organization provides other information as
well.
- Charlotte
Maxwell Complementary Clinic - This fabulous clinic
provides complementary treatments (acupuncture, massage,
herbs, and more) FREE to low-income women with cancer in
the Oakland, California.
- Gerson
Institute: Find out about Gerson, the Therapy, case
histories, statistics, care centers.
- Health
Action Network: A Canadian site that has a comprehensive
collection of alternative health information. Info on BGH,
pesticides. Level of information is general, good for introductory
fact finding.
- Licensed Acupuncturist Drew
Francis will answer questions about pain-related ailments,
stress-induced disorders, and other general health topics.
(e-mail)
- Med
Web is a general health site. No cancer topic here,
but lots on nutrition, herbs, HIV/AIDS, and more.
- Michael
Moore's Homepage - director of The Southwest School
of Botanical Medicine. Contains fairly technical information
about herbs. Some medicinal applications.
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Environmental Sites
- Amazing
Environmental Organization Web Directory
This is a search engine specifically for environmental issues
with topics to browse through such as: agriculture, energy,
pollution, recycling, sustainable development, environmental
newsgroups, publications, and much more. A great place to
spend hours looking around.
- Center for
Health, Environment and Justice
An organization working to build safe healthy communities.
Has an environmental e-bulletin available.
- Cornell
University - Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental
Risk Factors in New York State: Program information,
fact sheets, links, and bibliographies on many topics, including:
pesticides, diet and breast cancer, and breast cancer and
the environment.
- EcoJustice
Network: Includes many great links to people of color
organizations and other groups. Access to The People of
Color Environmental Groups Directory.
- Envirolink
Library: A comprehensive resource of environmental information.
- Environmental
Protection Agency: A megapage with tons of information.
Bibliographies of key environmental topics, research, publications,
contacts, and other information. Includes a huge list of
hotlines such as: Air Risk Information Center, Electric
and Magnetic Fields, Environmental Justice, National Lead
Information, Safe Drinking Water Hotline.
- Environmental
Racism/Environmental Justice: Information and links
plus information about the EcoJustice mailing list.
- Greenpeace:
Web site with current environmental news, archives, searching
capabilities, information on: ocean dumping, toxics, nuclear
issues, atmosphere, and more.
- Pesticide
Action Network: Great pesticide information including
current campaigns and news reports. Links to other sites
and PESTIS (Pesticide Information Service Database).
- Plutonium
Free Future: Includes a safe energy handbook, briefing
on radioactive pollution, archive of articles on nuclear
materials, long list of links to web sites with information
about nuclear and safe energy issues.
- Rachel's
Environmental Research Foundation: The electronic version
of this bulletin addresses many technical issues such as:
dioxin toxicity, incineration, rising cancer rates, risk
assessment and alternatives assessment. Rachel's is written
in plain language and offers information often not covered
by mainstream media.
- Silent
Spring Institute: Information and links about this scientific
research institute dedicated to expanding knowledge of the
relationships between the environment and women's health,
especially breast cancer.
- Toxic
Links Coalition: The web site for this growing alliance
of community groups - women with cancer, health care and
environmental justice organizations, silicone survivors,
women with reproductive disorders, and concerned individuals
working together to educate communities about the links
between environmental toxins and the decline in public health.
Information about TLC's work and participating organizations.
- Urban
Habitat Program: Information on this program dedicated
to building multicultural urban environmental leadership
for socially just, ecologically sustainable communities
in the San Francisco Bay Area. Includes material about their
quarterly newsletter, Race, Poverty, and the Environment.
- United
Farm Workers: History, resources, current news about
this organization and linksto other sites.
- Ward
Valley: Information about the proposed radioactive waste
dump in Ward Valley.
-
Who Holds The Mirror? Breast Cancer, Women's Lives And The Environment" is a nationally traveling mural co-created by The Breast Cancer Oral History Action Project and muralist Miranda Bergman and is used to educate, and inspire action and dialogue about women's and community health, environmental and social justice and can be exhibited at conferences, organizations, universities, cultural centers.
Government Sites
- Environmental
Protection Agency: Find policy-related info about environmental
regulation.
- Food and
Drug Administration: Look here for facts about drugs,
toxicology, foods, medical devices, radiological health,
etcetera.
- Medline
Plus – a great mega site. Includes a medical encyclopedia,
drug information, information about hundreds of health topics
and links to key sites.
- National
Cancer Institute will get you information about research
at the National Cancer Institute.
- National
Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: Has an Enviro-health
clearinghouse, articles on pesticides, the technology transfer
program, and a journal of publications.
- National
Institute of Health Server: Have to sift to get to Cancer
Info. More generalized than the National Cancer Institute
site.
- National
Library of Medicine Online Information Services
- World Health
Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer:
Find press releases, information on research around the
world, and publications.
Lesbian and Bisexual Health Sites
- Bisexuals
Sexual Health Action maintains a home page with information
on AIDS and STDs
- GLMA
- Gay Lesbian Medical Association
- Lesbian
and Bi Women's Resources
- Lesbians and Breast Cancer Project - Coming
Out About Lesbians and Cancer research report
- Lesbians
& Cancer Message Boards for asking questions and
chatting. Separate boards for: breast cancer, ovarian cancer,
caregivers, and resources.
- "Lesbian
Health Issues: We Are Not Immune!" An article about
lesbian health including info on STDs and general health.
- Lesbian
Health Research Center The mission of the LHRC is to
enhoance clinical practice and inform policy about the health
care needs of and delivery of services to lesbians, bisexual
women, and transgendered individuals through a program of
reseach, post-graduate education and training, and public
service.
- Mautner
Project for lesbians with cancer in Washington D.C.
Includes info about the organization, facts, breast self
exam, brochure in Spanish, and links to other sites.
Leukemia, Lymphoma, and Multiple Myeloma Sites
- Hem-Onc Listserv Mailing List is an unmoderated discussion
list for patients, family, friends, researchers and physicians
to discuss clinical and non-clinical issues and advances
pertinent to Leukemia, Lymphoma and Multiple Myeloma. This
includes patient experiences, psychosocial issues, new research,
clinical trials, and discussion of current treatment practices.
Subscribe by sending e-mail to: Listserv@sjuvm.stjohns.edu.
Leave the subject line blank. Place the following message
in the body of the mail: subscribe hem-onc your-first-name
your-last-name.
- Leukemia & Lymphoma Society - Fighting leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma
Nutrition
- The
Cancer Project provides comprehensive educational materials
about the value of a healthy diet in cancer prevention and
survival.
Pharmaceutical Sites
- Total Pricing Systems Inc. has developed a flexible and
extensible systems to present pharmaceutical information
to the medical community. Their site, PharmWeb, has pharmacy information resources.
Transgender Sites
See also Lesbian and Bisexual Health Sites above
U.S. Educational Institution Sites
Women's Sites
- DES
Action: This site provides basic information about DES,
as well as research updates. Services include physician
referral, attorney referral, quarterly newsletter, and a
pregnancy bed rest buddy program.
- FORCE:
Facing Our Risk of Cancer Empowered: Their goals are
to provide support for women at high risk for breast and
ovarian cancer, provide support for those families with
increased risk of these cancers, and help women find resources
to determine if they are at high risk for breast and ovarian
cancer.
- Women's
Health Hotline
- The
Women's Health Topic at Medscape: the first online journal
devoted to women's health. Information on cancer, depression,
hormonal therapy, heart disease, arthritis, and much more.
Users must register and login.
Women of Color Sites
African American/Black Women
Asian Pacific Islander Women
Latinas/Chicanas
Native American/Indigenous Women
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