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External Websites on Well Being

Overviews on All About Treatment

Prevention
What You Need to Know About™ Cancer: An Overview  - National Cancer Institute 
See section: Possible Causes and Prevention of Cancer

NCI/PDQ®Cancer Information Summaries: Prevention

How to Stay Safe in the Sun - Cancer Care

The Skin Cancer Foundation
Sun Safety
Year Round Sun Protection

NCI/PDQ® Control of Tobacco Use: Prevention and Cessation of Cigarette Smoking
Patient - Consumer level
Health Professional - Written in medical language

Clearing the Air: How to Quit Smoking…And Quit for Keeps - NCI

Cancer Screening
NCI/PDQ® Cancer Screening Overview 

Screening and Testing for Cancer - NCI
(Screening by type of cancer)

Testing for Cancer: Types of Tests - NCI

Your Cancer Risk™
- Harvard Center for Cancer Risk

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

Wellness - by Bernie Siegel, MD

The Future of Healing - by Bernie Siegel, MD

Websites

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.

Revised 2008

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