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Community and National Resources

The Web sites in this section contain information on community and national resources for patients and health care professionals.

Support Resources:

  1. National Organizations That Offer Services to People With Cancer and Their Families (Cancer Facts, National Cancer Institute)
  2. Spirituality in Cancer Care (PDQ®) (National Cancer Institute)
  3. Support and Resources (National Cancer Institute)
  4. Coping with Grief: A Difficult but Important Journey (Cancer Care, Inc.)
  5. Talking with Your Health Care Team About End-of-Life Care (Cancer Care, Inc.)
  6. HelpingPatients.org (Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America)
  7. Survive Cancer and Live (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Hospital and Clinics:

  1. National Cancer Institute Cancer Centers Program (Cancer Facts, National Cancer Institute)
  2. Database of Approved Cancer Programs (Committee on Approvals, Commision on Cancer, American College of Surgeons)
  3. Bureau of Primary Health Care: Service Delivery Sites (Health Resource and Services Administration)

Government Resources:

  1. FirstGov: The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal
  2. National Cancer Institute
  3. National Library of Medicine (National Institutes of Health)
  4. MedlinePlus Health Information (National Library of Medicine)
  5. Cancer Information Service (National Cancer Institute)
  6. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (National Institutes of Health)
  7. National Guideline Clearinghouse (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
  8. Organ Donation (Department of Health and Human Services)
  9. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
  10. National Institutes of Health (Department of Health and Human Services)

Diversity Resources:

  1. Office of Minority Health (Department of Health and Human Services)
  2. Intercultural Cancer Council
  3. National Center for Cultural Competence (Georgetown University)

Pain and Palliative Care Resources:

  1. Coping with Cancer (National Cancer Institute)
  2. Project on Death in America (Open Society Institute)

Continuing Education:

  1. Human Participant Protections Education for Research Teams (National Cancer Institute) Note: The two-hour tutorial is designed for those involved in conducting research involving human participants. It satisfies the NIH human subjects training requirement for obtaining Federal Funds.
  2. BenchMarks (National Cancer Institute)
  3. Science Behind the News (National Cancer Institute)

Videos (National Institutes of Health):

  1. NIH VideoCasting (National Institutes of Health)* The Center for Information Technology (CIT) makes special NIH events, seminars, and lectures available to viewers on the Internet.
    *Requires latest version of RealPlayer or RealOne and 220Kbps LAN or 56Kbps dial-up bandwidth.

Other Resources:

  1. National Network of Libraries of Medicine (National Library of Medicine)
  2. NOAH: New York Online Access to Health
  3. Institute of Medicine (National Academy of Sciences)
  4. NCI Cancer Bulletin (National Cancer Institute)