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Arizona Telemedicine Program
A large, multidisciplinary, university-based program that provides telemedicine services, distance learning, informatics training, and telemedicine technology assessment capabilities to communities throughout Arizona.

Arizona Cancer Center
A National Cancer Institute-Designated Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center in Tucson.

American Cancer Society
The nationwide community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy, and service.

Breast Cancer Prevention
Clinical research studies offer us the best hope for the proper evaluation of drugs and medical techniques. This site offers you the opportunity to obtain credible information on clinical trial research and to assess your chances of getting breast cancer.

Breast Cancer Resources
Prepared by the University of Arizona College of Nursing Community Health Class of 2000.

CancerNET
To provide recent and accurate cancer information from the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the Federal Government’s principal agency for cancer research.

Complementary and Alternative Medicine on PubMed
(CAM on PubMed)
A subset of PubMed containing CAM-related bibliographic citations from MEDLINE.

Department of Health and Human Services - Breast Cancer Information
A new web site from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services helps patients understand their disease and its treatment, and gives them tools to help deal with the challenges that the disease creates in their lives.

Livingwithit.org
A support program for women with recurrent breast cancer.

MEDLINEplus
A consumer health initiative of the National Library of Medicine for full-text consumer health information on more than 250 health topics, drug information, and directories for physicians, hospitals, etc.

Medscape's Breast Cancer Resource Center
A collection of the latest medical news and information on breast cancer prevention, diagnosis and therapy. This resource includes news, conference summaries, Ask the Expert Forum, articles, editorials, journal scans, t treatment updates, clinical management modules, MEDLINE abstracts, links to government and professional organizations, practice guidelines, future conferences and a clinical tool from the National Cancer Institute to assess an individual's breast cancer risk.

National Cancer Institute
The NCI leads the nation's fight against cancer by supporting and conducting ground-breaking research in cancer biology, causation, prevention, detection, treatment, and survivorship.

National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project
The National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (NSABP) is a clinical trials cooperative group supported by the National Cancer Institute.

Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine (OCCAM)
OCCAM coordinates and enhances the activities of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the arena of complementary and alternative medicine.

Siga adelante: La vida despues del tratamiento del cancer
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has created a new publication for Latino cancer survivors, their families and friends, and health care professionals. Siga adelante: la vida después del tratamiento del cáncer is a unique adaptation of Life After Cancer Treatment, a resource that offers scientific information from health professionals and coping tips from cancer survivors to help them face the challenges of life after treatment.

In addition to general information about life after treatment, Siga adelante addresses issues relevant to the Latino community such as:

Effective ways to communicate with health care professionals during follow-up care
Importance of the family in healing after cancer treatment
Use of complementary and alternative medicine
Practical issues, such as health insurance and legal
rights.

This book is now available on the Web at http://www.cancer.gov/espanol/vida-despues-del-tratamiento.
To order free copies of Siga adelante: la vida después del
tratamiento del cáncer, call 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237).

Southwest Oncology Group
One of the largest of the National Cancer Institute-supported cancer clinical trials cooperative groups in the United States. Our primary mission is clinical research in the prevention and cure of cancer in adults.

Sunstone Healing Centers
The vision of the Sunstone Cancer Support Foundation is to provide cancer survivors with a nurturing and serene retreat center where they may explore their personal journey of healing through comprehensive immersion retreats, outreach services and other resources. Also see the monthly Sunstone Journeys newsletter.