Medical Links

American Cancer Society
Cancer Facts and Figures (includes a great chart) 
http://www.cancer.org/downloads/STT/2008CAFFfinalsecured.pdf

Association of Cancer Online Resources, Inc.
www.acor.org
Creates, produces, hosts and manages a large number of specific online resources for cancer patients, caregivers, healthcare professionals and basic research scientists.

General Cancer News (Journal Abstracts)
www.cancernews.com
Cancer News on the Net® is dedicated to bringing patients and their families the latest news and information on cancer diagnosis, treatment and prevention.

Institute For Health & Healing Library
www.cpmc.org/services/ihh/hhc/ihhlibrary
San Francisco, CA
California Pacific Medical Center, 415-923-3681
Computer searched lists of articles on specific cancers and informational packets of conventional and complementary therapies for specific condition available.

Journal of the American Medical Association
www.ama-assn.org
Abstracts of the Journal on a plethora of health issues and / or diseases.  

National Cancer Institute (NCI) Cancer Information Service
http://cancer.gov/cancerinformation
1-800-4-CANCER
Advice on diagnoses, treatment options and availability of clinical trials.

• CancerFax, 301-402-5874
  NCI automated program faxes information on treatment guidelines, prognoses, current research and developments.
• PDQ Search Service, 1-800-345-3300
  Physicians Data Query database, NCI's comprehensive cancer database, with information on treatment, supportive care, and clinical trials around the world. 

National Library of Medicine
www.nlm.nih.gov
Free access to Medline database.