LinksOur website was created in order to assist patients and their families in accessing current cancer treatment information to ensure that they receive high quality treatment and gain access to the newest cancer drugs/treatment strategies through the clinical trials process. CancerConsultants.com is an independent and comprehensive source of cancer treatment information provided exclusively for patients and their families. We have elected to maintain our focus on helping patients learn about their treatment options and promote access to clinical studies and specific cancer services through our personal consultations. Optimal delivery of cancer care, however, relies on many other factors including financial and legal support, patient advocacy, and other services. Based on our editors' review, we recommend the following services to meet these special needs of patients and their families.
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| Advocacy & Support Groups |
| Cancer Care, Inc. | Provides free professional counseling, support groups, education and information, and referrals to cancer patients and their families to help them cope with the psychological and social consequences of cancer. | | Cancer Hope Network | Offers free, confidential one-to-one support to cancer patients undergoing cancer treatment and their families using trained volunteers who have undergone a similar experience. | | Coping With Cancer Magazine | America's consumer magazine for people whose lives have been touched by cancer. Provides knowledge, hope and inspiration from cancer survivors and healthcare professionals. Coping provides official annual coverage of National Cancer Survivors Day and is a National Sponsor. | | Gilda's Club Worldwide | International network where men, women and children with cancer and their families and friends join with others to build social and emotional support as a supplement to medical care in a free nonresidential home-like setting. All kinds and stages of cancer are welcome in 14 locations open worldwide. | | Lance Armstrong Foundation | Dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for people living with, through and beyond cancer. Activities focus on survivorship resources and support, groundbreaking survivorship programs, national advocacy initiatives, and scientific and clinical research grants. | | Male Care | Prostate Cancer treatment and survival articles written by patient and doctors, updated wwith new articles every week, by the international non profit organization, Malecare. | | National Cancer Survivors Day (NCSD) Foundation | The Foundation provides education, legal counseling and referrals to cancer patients and survivors concerning managed care, insurance, financial issues, job discrimination and debt crisis matters. | | Partnership for Caring: America's Voices for the Dying | Advocates recognition and protection of individual rights at the end of life, including living wills and durable powers of attorney. | | Patient Advocate Foundation (PAF) | Serves as an active liaison between the patient and his/her insurer, employer and/or creditor to resolve insurance, job retention, and/or debt crisis matters relative to his/her diagnosis. | | R.A. Bloch Cancer Foundation, Inc. | The Cancer Hotline matches newly diagnosed with someone who has survived the same cancer. Offers free information, lists of Multidisciplinary Second Opinion Centers and free books: Fighting Cancer, Cancer... There's Hope and Guide for Cancer Supporters. | | Ronald McDonald House | Offers a refuge from the hospital, a "home-away-from-home." | | Sisters Network, Inc. | An African American breast cancer survivor run organization that provides individual/group support; community education, advocacy and research through affiliate chapters nationwide. | | The Oley Foundation | Provides free information and psychosocial support to patients fed by tube or IV at home who cannot be sustained by normal eating because part of their gastrointestinal tract is damaged or removed. However, it does not provide financial support or oral nutrition counseling. | | The Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults | Provides free support programs, education and resources to benefit young adults, their families and friends who are affected by cancer and to promote awareness and prevention of cancer. | | The Wellness Community | Provides free of charge professionally led support groups nationwide and education, stress management and social networking in a home-like community setting with a focus on enhancing health and well-being. Twenty-two facilities nationwide. | | Vital Options International TeleSupport Cancer Network | The Group Room Radio Talk Show, a weekly syndicated call-in cancer talk show linking callers with other patients, long-term survivors, family members, physicians, researchers and therapists. |
| Financial / Travel Assistance |
| Directory Of Financial Resources | Financial Resource Guide For Patients: A state by state directory . | | Angel Flight America | Angel Flight America helps people in need seeking free air transportation to specialized health care facilities. | | Corporate Angel Network | Arranges free travel for cancer patients to treatment centers using the empty seats on corporate jets. | | NeedyMeds.com | A site to learn about patient assistance programs and other programs designed to help those who cant afford their medicines. | | Medicare.gov | Official U.S. government site for people with Medicare | | Pharmaceutical Research and Manufactures of America | Provides a listing of pharmaceutical programs that provide drugs to physicians whose patients could not otherwise afford them. | | Patient Advocate Foundation | The Foundation provides education, legal counseling and referrals to cancer patients and survivors concerning managed care, insurance, financial issues, job discrimination and debt crisis matters. |
| General Cancer Information / Support |
| American Cancer Society | ACS is a nationwide, community-based organization with chartered division in every state. Phone:1-800-ACS-2345 | | By My Side | An Amgen sponsored patient website. Provides a range of resources to help support patients undergoing chemotherapy. | | Cancer Care | Cancer Care provides assistance free of charge to people with cancer. | | Cancer.com | An Ortho Biotech sponsored Web site for patients. Provides a comprehensive list of cancer related Web site links. | | Cancer Guide | Cancer Guide is a comprehensive information guide that helps patients identify the right questions to ask and where to find the most appropriate information for their situation. | | Cancer Hope Network | CHP provides free, confidential, one-on-one support to people with cancer and their families by matching patients with trained volunteers who have undergone a similar experience. Phone: 1-877-HOPENET | | CancerLinks | Provides comprehensive, informative links for different types of cancer. | | Cycle of Hope | Cycle of Hope is designed to help support early cancer detection, to reduce fear associated with treatment, to encourage a team approach, and to foster hope in patients and their families fighting the disease. | | Gilda's Club | Gilda's Club where the focus is on living with cancer. Men, Women and Children with any kind of cancer and their family members and friends can plan and build life-changing emotional and social support. | | National Cancer Institute | NCI is the U.S. government agency responsible for conducting and supporting research on cancer. Their site provides information about treatment, clinical trials, and supportive care. | | National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship | Patient-led organization advocating on behalf of survivors of all types of cancer. | | International Cancer Alliance | ICARE is a non-profit alliance of researchers, physicians and patients working together to promote substantive, understandable information programs on advanced treatment options. | | Your Disease Risk | Assess your cancer risk with this tool created by the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention. |
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Brain Cancer| American Brain Tumor Association | A complete source of information about brain tumors, treatment options, clinical trials and living with a brain tumor. | | Children's Brian Tumor Foundation | The mission of the Children's Brian Tumor Foundation is to improve the treatment, quality of life and long-term outlook for children with brain and spinal cord tumors. |
Breast Cancer| Breast Cancer Options | BCO provides support and information about effective treatment options, informed patient choice and cancer risk reduction. Their email update, Breast Cancer News, has information on Complementary/Alternative Medicine, Environmental Risk Factors as well as traditional medicine choices. They also have a message board, discount vitamin club and much more. | | Bosom Buddies | Bosom Buddies produces videotapes to help newly diagnosed breast cancer patients and their families. | | National Breast Cancer Foundation | The National Breast Cancer Foundation provides information including early signs and symptoms of breast cancer, myths, early detection, breast cancer research and much more. | | Avon Foundation Breast Care Fund | Avon Foundation Breast Care Fund was created by avon to reach the women most in need of breast cancer screening and treatment by providing outreach to medically undeserved women. | | The Komen Foundation | The Komen Foundation is a forerunner in the fight against breast cancer through its advancement of research, education, screening and treatment. To learn more, visit www.komen.org or call 1.800 I?M AWARE®. | | Her2Support.org | Her2Support.org is an online support group for women whose tumors are HER2-Positive. | | Expedition Inspiration | Expedition Inspiration raises awareness and money to benefit breast cancer research. | | FORCE | FORCE is a support and information site for women at risk of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer due to family history BRCA genetic status. | | Inflammatory Breast Cancer Support | IBCS provides an email exchange capability for patients with inflammatory breast cancer. | | Inflammatory Breast Cancer Research Foundation | IBCRF strives to increase the awareness of the unique symptoms and diagnostic difficulty of inflammatory breast cancer. TOLL FREE: 1.877.STOP.IBC | | Living Beyond Breast Cancer | LBBC's mission is to empower all women affected by breast cancer to live as long as possible with the best quality of life. | | Living With It | An Aventis Oncology sponsored support program for women living with recurrent breast cancer. | | National Breast Cancer Coalition | NBCC is a grassroots advocacy organization dedicated to fighting breast cancer. | | Y-ME | Y-ME provides a 24 hour hot line staffed by peer trained counselors who are breast cancer survivors. Phone: 1.800.221.2141 In English and 150 other languages. | | The Young Survival Coalition | The YSC is dedicated to the concerns and issues that are unique to young women and breast cancer. Through action, advocacy and awareness, the YSC seeks to educate the medical, research, breast cancer and legislative communities and to persuade them to address breast cancer in women 40 and under. |
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Childhood Cancer| Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation | CCCF provides information, support, and advocacy for families of children with cancer, survivor of childhood cancer, and professionals who work with them. | | Children's Brian Tumor Foundation | The mission of the Children's Brian Tumor Foundation is to improve the treatment, quality of life and long-term outlook for children with brain and spinal cord tumors. |
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Colorectal Cancer| Colon Cancer Alliance | Provides support and information services to those battling colorectal cancer and is an organization made up of colon and rectal cancer survivors, caregivers, and people with a genetic predisposition to colorectal cancer. | | Colorectal Cancer Network | Provides information and links on colorectal cancer, clinical trials, support group locations, stories of survivors and angels, and ways to join in the fight to end colorectal cancer. |
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Esophageal Cancer
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Kidney Cancer| The Kidney Cancer Association | The Kidney Cancer Association is a membership organization made up of patients, family members, physicians, researchers, and other health professionals. |
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Leukemia and Lymphoma| Lymphomation.org | Lymphomation.org provides a helping hand from patient to patient by sharing evidence-based information and voicing the patient perspective in the fight against NHL. | | The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society | The Society is a national voluntary health agency dedicated solely to seeking the cause and eventual cure of leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma and Hodgkin's disease. |
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Lung Cancer| Lung Cancer Alliance | The Lung Cancer Alliance provides a hotline, website, Phone Buddy program, newsletter, and informational materials. | | Mesothelioma Asbestos Lung Cancer | Provides information regarding the mesothelioma asbestos lung cancer, list of specialists treating mesothelioma asbestos lung cancer and mesothelioma asbestos lung cancer legal support information. |
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Lymphedema| National Lymphedema Network | NLN's mission is to standardize quality treatment for lymphedema patients nationwide. In addition, the NLN support research into the causes and possible alternative treatments for this often incapacitating, long-neglected condition. |
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Multiple Myeloma| The International Myeloma Foundation | The International Myeloma Foundation helps anyone battling multiple myeloma – patients, family, friends, caregivers and the medical and scientific communities. The IMF also has a hotline where people can call to get case specific questions answered. | | The Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation | The MMRF focuses on the following four goals: funding research, raising awareness, providing information, and building collaboration. |
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Ovarian Cancer| FORCE | FORCE is a support and information site for women at risk of hereditary breast and ovarian cancer due to family history or BRCA genetic status. |
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Pancreatic Cancer
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Prostate Cancer| Male Care | Prostate Cancer treatment and survival articles written by patient and doctors, updated wwith new articles every week, by the international non profit organization, Malecare. | | US-Too | US-Too! provides information, counseling and educational meetings to assist men with prostate disease in making decisions about their treatment with confidence and support. | | National Prostate Cancer Coalition | The NPCC serves the public as a one-stop shop for prostate cancer information and education. |
Testicular Cancer| Testicular Cancer Resource Center | TCRC is devoted to providing accurate and timely information and support on all aspects of testicular cancer and extragonadal germ cell tumors. |
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