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External Websites for Coping With Diagnosis and Treatment

Overviews

Coping - General
What You Need to Know About™\ Cancer: An Overview  - National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Taking Time: Support for People with Cancer and the People Who Care About Them - NCI

Cancer Overview: Coping - People Living With Cancer

When Cancer Recurs: Meeting the Challenge - NCI

Advanced Cancer: Living Each Day - NCI

When Someone in Your Family Has Cancer - NCI
 - Guide for young people when a family member has cancer

Young People with Cancer: A Handbook for Parents - NCI - Guide for parents coping when a child has cancer

Talking to Someone with Cancer - Cancer BACUP

Who can ever understand - Talking about your cancer - Cancer BACUP

How to Find Support
Your Healthcare Team: Your Doctor is Only the Beginning - NCI

How to Find Resources in Your Community if You Have Cancer - NCI

National Organizations that Offer Services to People with Cancer and Their Families - NCI

Cancer Support Groups: Questions and Answers - NCI

Websites

Coping

For Kids

General Websites

Connect With Others

  • Association of Cancer Online Resources (ACOR)
    Mailing Lists -offers a wide variety of email discussion groups on many cancer types and topics
    OncoChat - offers live chat with cancer survivors, their families and friends

  • American Cancer Society
    Cancer Survivors Network offers a variety of ways to communicate with others

  • Cancer Care
    Telephone Support Groups offers groups that connect by using the telephone
    Online Support Group post messages on their moderated electronic bulletin board

  • CarePages
    CarePages offers a way to keep family and friends informed during medical treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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