Cancer

	Cancer
General Info	Breast Cancer	Prostate
Genetics	Colon	Skin
Brain Cancer	Lung	Esophageal
	Treatment

GENERAL

How Cancer Works
Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States. It kills more 500,000 people a year. This web site will help you understand what cancer is. You will learn about tumor growth and how they metastasize. Do you know what factors can cause cancer? Information on carcinogens is presented. Learn how to decode doctor-speak. Read how doctors use radiation therapy and chemotherapy to destroy cancer cells. What are the side effects of cancer treatment? Finally, learn how to discourage cancer.
Topic: Cancer
URL: http://health.howstuffworks.com/cancer.htm

American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society wants to eliminate cancer as a major health problem. They seek to do this by preventing cancer, saving lives, and diminishing suffering. Learn about cancer treatment options, clinical trials, and coping. Support programs are available for survivors. Volunteer to help in the fight against cancer. You can choose a cancer topic for specific information. Find facts and figures and publications. Read monthly articles on various topics. Share ideas and information on message boards.
Topic: Cancer
URL: http://www.cancer.org/

Cancer Topics
CancerNet provides current and accurate cancer information from the National Cancer Institute. You will find a wide range of cancer information, including treatment options, clinical trials, ways to reduce cancer risk, and ways to cope with cancer. Resources on support groups, financial assistance, educational materials, and more are also available.
Topic: Cancer--Treatment
URL: http://www.cancer.gov/cancer_information
Cancer Clusters
A cancer cluster is suspected when several family members, friends, neighbors, or coworkers have been diagnosed with the same type of cancer. This fact sheet from the National Cancer Institute offers information about cancer and the way it begins and progresses, and the current research from epidemiologists about the differences between coincidence and a true cancer cluster. A discussion of genetic and environmental factors for cancer clusters is followed by information about reporting suspected cancer clusters to the health department.
Topic: Epidemiology
URL: http://cis.nci.nih.gov/fact/3_58.htm

CSN - Welcome to the Cancer Survivors Network
Here is an inspiring web site that features cancer survivors and their stories. The diagnosis of cancer used to be a death sentence for the individual who contracted the disease. As this web site illustrates, that view is no longer justified. With advanced treatments and an evolution of miracle drugs, more and more people are surviving their battles against cancer. Read the uplifting stories of dozens of people, share their victories, and rejoice in their return to their lives. This is a wonderful site for anyone who is experiencing this disease or who has a loved one in the same situation.
Topic: Cancer--Treatment
URL: http://www.acscsn.org/CSN_Home_Page/
OncoLink: University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center
This web site provides a comprehensive look at the research that is being done with cancerous cells and cancerous cell growth at the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center. Read many articles on types of cancer, treatment of cancer, and cancer coping skills. There is even a gallery of artwork that was created by adults and children whose lives have been touched by cancer.
Topic: Cancer--Treatment
URL: http://www.oncolink.com
Cell Biology and Cancer
The National Institute of Health and the National Cancer Institute bring you this set of students activities that have you examine how cell biology and cancer relate to each other. Several lessons are featured in all, including lessons dealing with cancer and the cell cycle, cancer as a multi-step process, and how people are acting on claims against cancer. The activities contain a couple of different learning tools such as videos and online simulators that help to teach the information.
Topic: Cells
URL: http://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih1/cancer/activities/activities_toc.htm

Cancer Pain
The complexity of our bodies is amazing when you stop and think about it. Throughout our body are pain receptors that at any moment send messages to our brain when we encounter a painful experience. A definition of the word pain can be stated as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage." The Oncology Channel has provided this site specific to the pain experienced by those with cancer. Cancer is so prevalent that we will either experience ourselves or know someone that is fighting it.
Topic: Pain--Physiological aspects
URL: http://www.oncologychannel.com/pain/

BC Cancer Agency
The purpose of the BC Cancer Agency is to inform the public of the many available services to those living with cancer or those whose loved ones have cancer. Visitors may search for information on types of cancer, regional services, health professional information, about the BC CA, research, and donation. The resources available are numerous. Each one of these sections contains many links to pages filled with even more additional links. The homepage also has the latest updated information related to cancer.
Topic: Public health--Canada
URL: http://www.bccancer.bc.ca/default.htm

Cancer and the Immune System: The Vital Connection
How does the immune system work to avert cancer and other diseases? This essay attempts to answer this and many other questions about Cancer and the connection to the immune system. Advanced research information and studies have been provided by the Cancer Research Institute. Immune response and molecular immunology is also addressed. Further research is available through an additional link.
Topic: Molecular immunology
URL: http://www.cancerresearch.org/Resources.aspx?id=572

Environmental Causes of Cancer
Increased use of petroleum based products has brought evidence to the surface that these chemicals increase the chances of cancers in adult and children. Discover why central Florida has begun an investigation into the elevated brain cancer rate in an article titled ?Introduction to Child Cancers, Chemicals and Pesticides?. Seventeen additional topics are addressed including: ?Diet Drinks Linked to Brain Cancer?, ?Child Brain Cancers and Home Pesticide Use? and ?Brain Tumor Suspected from Chlordane Ingestion?.
Topic: Environmental health
URL: http://www.chem-tox.com/cancerchildren/default.htm

CancerQuest
Created for people who want to learn more about cancer, this web site covers everything from diagnosis to treatment. Tabs at the top of the page let you choose to view the site as a student, patient, educator, or health professional. A basic introduction of the biology of cells is reviewed, with information about cell structure and cell division included. Types and causes of genetic change in cells are described. Cancer detection, diagnosis and treatment options are explained. View an interview with a cancer researcher.
Topic: Cancer--Treatment
URL: http://www.cancerquest.org/

Life Expectancy: Detailed Information
Part of the Lance Armstrong Foundation's web site, this page will help you understand the specific life expectancy concerns of cancer survivors. Many cancer survivors worry about how cancer has affected their life expectancy and how their treatment will affect them in the future. This site gives advice from professionals about how to understand life expectancy statistics and how to discuss them with a health care team. You will understand how the statistics are computed and why they should be used as very general guidelines, not exact calculations, on how long you are going to live.
Topic: Life expectancy
URL: http://www.livestrong.org/site/c.jvKZLbMRIsG/b.670561/k.5758/Life_Expectancy_Detailed_Information.htm

Genetics

Cancer Genetics

CancerNet provides current and accurate cancer information from the National Cancer Institute. You will find a wide range of cancer information, including treatment options, clinical trials, ways to reduce cancer risk, and ways to cope with cancer. Resources on support groups, financial assistance, educational materials, and more are also available.

Topic: Cancer--Treatment

URL: http://www.cancer.gov/cancer_information/list.aspx?viewid=f3f58460-7292-4301-ad79-b16cd86279aa

Family Ties
This article on the WebMD web site discusses results from a study that suggests that having a first-degree relative -- a parent, brother, sister, or child -- with cancer is associated with an approximate doubling of lung cancer risk among people who don't smoke. There is evidence that some people will develop cancers more quickly than others and some never develop cancer at all, so there is clearly a role for genetics. However, for the common cancers, it may take four or five different genetic predispositions working. This article cites the studies and includes commentary from physicians.
Topic: Cancer--Genetic aspects
URL: http://my.webmd.com/content/article/21/1728_54448.htm?lastselectedguid={5FE84E90-BC77-4056-A91C-9531713CA348}

How do People Inherit Breast Cancer?
The Genetics Home Reference is the National Library of Medicine's web site for consumer information about genetic conditions and the genes responsible for those conditions. This information about breast cancer is from the "Genetic Conditions Summary" section. Find out which types of breast cancer are inherited, which genes are related to breast cancer, and how common inherited breast cancer is. For more information, use the links to publications and other web sites.
Topic: Cancer--Genetic aspects
URL: http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition=breastcancer;jsessionid=595235371DA25AA5BD57110D137EA637
Powerful New Method Helps Reveal Genetic Basis of Cancer
Researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have developed one of the most sensitive and comprehensive methods that now exists for profiling the genetic basis of cancer and other diseases. The method detects chromosomal deletions and amplifications (i.e. missing or excess copies of DNA segments), and is useful for a wide variety of biomedical and other applications. Find out more about this method by reading this article found in the online Space Daily News.
Topic: Cancer--Genetic aspects
URL: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/spacemedicine-03v.html


Understanding Cancer Series: Cancer Genomics
The slide show examines the role of genes and mutations in cancer. Genetic mutations contribute to the development and spread of cancer, and may take the form of point mutations, deletions, insertions, or translocations. Some mutations are silent, having no impact on the protein formed, but as mutations accumulate, so does the risk of cancer. Learn about dozens of different types of mutations, alleles, and factors that influence cancer susceptibility. Discover how oncogenes create abnormal cell growth and tumor suppressor genes fail to stop cancer.
Topic: Oncogenes
Cancer Clusters
A cancer cluster is suspected when several family members, friends, neighbors, or coworkers have been diagnosed with the same type of cancer. This fact sheet from the National Cancer Institute offers information about cancer and the way it begins and progresses, and the current research from epidemiologists about the differences between coincidence and a true cancer cluster. A discussion of genetic and environmental factors for cancer clusters is followed by information about reporting suspected cancer clusters to the health department.
Topic: Epidemiology
URL: http://cis.nci.nih.gov/fact/3_58.htm

Cancer Genetics
CancerNet provides current and accurate cancer information from the National Cancer Institute. You will find a wide range of cancer information, including treatment options, clinical trials, ways to reduce cancer risk, and ways to cope with cancer. Resources on support groups, financial assistance, educational materials, and more are also available.
Topic: Cancer--Treatment
URL: http://www.cancer.gov/cancer_information/list.aspx?viewid=f3f58460-7292-4301-ad79-b16cd86279aa

Genetic Testing
This Kid's Health Information Center for parents discusses childhood cancers, their causes, types and symptoms. In almost all cases childhood cancers arise from noninherited mutations (or changes) in the genes of growing cells. Because these errors occur randomly and unpredictably, there is currently no effective way to prevent them. Rarely, there may be an increased risk of childhood cancer in children who have a genetic condition such as Down syndrome. Childhood cancer is relatively rare, and symptoms might be overlooked at first.
Topic: Human chromosome abnormalities--Diagnosis
URL: http://kidshealth.org/parent/system/medical/genetics.html

National Cancer Institute: Laboratory of Population Genetics
The Laboratory of Population Genetics, using genetic analysis, examines human biological processes. The lab utilizes resources and technology to understand the complicated phenotypes related to cancer. The related areas the lab focuses upon are human genetic mapping, genetic phenotype dissection, and experimental organism genetics. Take a look into the labs of five researchers and discover how these areas are being explored using the latest technologies. Links to projects and related links are also provided by the National Cancer Institute.
Topic: Research
URL: http://lpg.nci.nih.gov/

Understanding Cancer Series: Gene Testing

This excellent organization of online articles, by the US Department of Health and Human Services, provides basic information about the theory and practice of gene testing. This site illustrates what genes are, explains how mutations occur and are identified within genes, and discusses the benefits and limitations of gene testing for cancer and other disorders. The topics should be accessed in order as they build a knowledge base to ultimately understand some of the complexities involved in molecular genetics.

Topic: Medical genetics

URL: http://www.nci.nih.gov/cancertopics/UnderstandingCancer/genetesting

Types of Cancer

Brain

Cancer of the Brain
PersonlMD present this online access to information about cancer of the brain. Cancers that start in the brain are called primary brain cancers. When cancer starts in another part of the body and spreads to the brain the term used is secondary brain cancer. Learn how your health care system and your doctor aid in the care of patients. Questions answered include: what is cancer of the brain, what are the symptoms, how is it diagnosed, how is it treated, and how can I take care of myself?
Topic: Brain--Cancer
URL: http://www.personalmd.com/sha.jsp?f=cancrbrn.html

Brain Tumor (Astrocytomas)
Cancer Monthly is a source for cancer treatment results for the different named cancers including brain cancer. Resources include these sections: before you start chemo, clinics, glossary, organizations, drug database, immune system, legal services, questions for your oncologist, and a treatment search. Search for the results of more than one hundred recent therapies including side effects and survival rate. Learn about some encouraging published results with immunotherapy and biologic therapies against cancer. Stories and testimonials plus hospital information are available.
Topic: Brain--Cancer
URL: http://www.cancermonthly.com/cancer_basics/brain.asp

Brain Tumor Children
MedlinePlus service of the United States National library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health present this medical encyclopedia. The information available for brain cancer is in the brain tumor section. Learn that a tumor is any growth of abnormal cells, or the uncontrolled growth of cells. Sections of interest include symptoms, illustrations, alternative names, definition, causes, risk factors, signs and tests, treatment, support groups, complications, and your health care provider. Tumors may be invasive (spread to nearby areas), benign (not cancerous), or malignant (cancerous).
Topic: Brain--Tumors
URL: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000768.htm

What You Need To Know About Brain Tumors
For those looking for basic information on brain cancer, here is a good place to start. This web page provided by the National Cancer Institute provides links to topics such as the brain, possible causes, symptoms, primary and secondary tumors, treatment, clinical trials, side effects, and rehabilitation, as well as related resources.
Topic: Cancer--Treatment
URL: http://www.cancer.gov/cancer_information/doc_wyntk.aspx?viewid=b5500bd0-3da6-496a-8080-3052a630ba57

Some Kinds of Cancer Kids Get
This KidsHealth web site offers an article just for kids called "Some Kinds of Cancer Kids Get". Read this educational article to learn what cancer is and to find out about several forms of cancer that affect children, including leukemia. The article discusses how leukemia causes the white blood cells to stop working normally, and it talks about different ways that the disease is treated. Go to this web site to read more about leukemia, brain cancer, and lymphoma.
Topic: Leukemia in children
URL: http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/health_problems/cancer/cancer_kinds.html

NINDS Brain and Spinal Tumors Information Page
This excellent web site designed by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke supports research on disorders of the brain and nervous system. There is information pertaining to brain tumors, which includes causes, symptoms, treatment, research, and where to turn for help. You will find links to related articles. This site can be searched by keyword.
Topic: Brain--Cancer
URL: http://www.ninds.nih.gov/health_and_medical/pubs/brain_tumor_hope_through_research.htm

ABTA Kids
This web site provided by the American Brain Tumor Association offers pertinent information about childhood brain tumors, which are different from those adults may have. Topics discussed include the child's needs and symptoms, types of common childhood tumors, treatment, and long term follow-up. There are links to helpful organizations and related resources.
Topic: Brain--Tumors
URL: http://www.abta.org/kids/home.htm

Brain and Nervous System: Normal Physiology
Are you interested in learning more about the structure and function of the brain? If so, then access this fantastic web site. Here you can learn about several of the functions of the brain and nervous system, including: motor movement, regulation of basic body functions, intelligence, learning, and memory, the senses, balance and coordination, and much more. There is even information about diseases, disorders, and conditions of the nervous system, such as brain tumors, epilepsy, Bell's palsy, cerebral palsy, headaches, meningitis, and more.
Topic: Physiology
URL: http://www.kidshealth.org/parent/general/body_basics/brain_nervous_system.html

Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer
Breast cancer is a "malignant tumor in the glandular tissues of the breast." Abnormal cells can multiply at a fast rate. They may metastasize, or spread, to other parts of the body. Breast cancer is the second most common form of cancer in women, following skin cancer. Wide-spread screening has led to the discovery and treatment of breast cancer in about 200,000 women each year in the United States. Birth control pills and hormone replacement therapy increase a women's risk of developing breast cancer.
Topic: Breast--Cancer
URL: http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761588708/Breast_Cancer.html

NOAH: Breast Cancer
The New York Online Access to Health web site brings to users this excellent page on breast cancer. The text-based site is dedicated to providing complete and thorough information on this illness that affects so many. This is a great source for statistics of all kinds, including racial/ethnic patterns, improvement rates, research, resources, and survival rates. Other topics of interest to the researcher might be breast cancer in men, diagnosis and prevention, and care and treatment which includes clinical trials, chemotherapy, diet, drugs, radiation, and surgery.
Topic: Breast--Cancer
URL: http://www.noah-health.org/search/results.php?lang=1&keyword=Breast+Cancer&dtype=1

Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization
This web site from the Y-Me Breast Cancer Foundation continues the work that the foundation carries on with victims of breast cancer. The philosophy is that strength lies in advocacy and sharing. Their mission is to decrease the impact that the disease has on an individual's life, and, the same time, guarantee that no one faces the illness alone. The web site offers information that enlightens, inspires, and encourages, as well as advice on practical issues such as how to choose your doctor and your treatment. This site is also available in Spanish.
Topic: Breast--Cancer
URL: http://www.y-me.org/

OconoLink Breast Cancer Physicians Update

This oncology web site provides the viewer with a wealth of knowledge, education, and support regarding women's related cancer. Breast and ovarian cancer are two of the most common killers of women today. This site provides answers and resources to commonly asked questions and concerns. Articles and essays by family members and cancer survivors are included. Cutting edge technology and research is available through links and additional pages.

Topic: Breast--Cancer