News and Information on Cancer

Websites containing quality and reliable health information can provide patients with valuable support and resources. You can follow the updates and news of these sites easily with RSS. This video describes how you can use RSS:



If you don't want to learn how to use RSS, PeRSSonalized Medicine, a free Webicina service, is created for you. Follow your favourite medical news, blogs, journals and social media sites in one click.



You can also insert the term "cancer" into the custom Pubmed feed box, and you will receive the latest peer-reviewed articles focusing on cancer automatically.

We collected the best sites focusing on cancer-related support and information below. Please let us know if you have suggestions.

Cancer Compass

• Description: CancerCompass is a unique community for people who are affected by cancer. Within, you can interact with people - fellow patients, family members and the cancer concerned.
• Quality: Within CancerCompass you'll find a thriving community of more than 15,000 people connected to the latest cancer news, cancer information, decision support resources, and most importantly, each other.

Cancer Consultant

• Description: The mission of CancerConsultants.com is to provide interested individuals, cancer patients, and their families and caregivers with access to the most current information about the prevention, screening, treatment, and overall management of cancer. The content on CancerConsultants.com has been awarded with the World Wide Web Health Awards' Gold Award for patient education and information excellence. The Gold Award is the highest possible award bestowed on such sites. In addition, CancerConsultants.com has been named one of the top 5 oncology Web sites by Oncology Net Guide.
• Quality: Cancer Consultants is the leading developer of websites and distributor of educational content on cancer. Since 1997, over 200 hospitals, oncology clinics, advocacy organizations and pharma companies have elected to use content and web applications developed and maintained by Cancer Consultants to ensure their patients receive the most current information on cancer and its management.

Cancer Research UK

• Description: CancerHelp UK is the patient information website of Cancer Research UK. We provide a free information service about cancer and cancer care for people with cancer and their families. We believe that information about cancer should be freely available to all and written in a way that people can easily understand.
• Quality: Cancer Help UK is accredited by NHS Direct Online to deliver quality health information.

Cancer.gov

• Description: A Service of the National Cancer Institute
• Quality: The National Cancer Institute coordinates the National Cancer Program, which conducts and supports research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs with respect to the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of cancer, rehabilitation from cancer, and the continuing care of cancer patients and the families of cancer patients.

Understanding Cancer Series: This Web site contains graphic-rich tutorials for educational use by life science teachers, medical professionals, and the interested public.

CancerTrack

• Description: Here are the medical advisors of the site. (http://www.cancertrack.com/aboutus.htm)
• Quality: CancerTrack.com was founded as a result of my fathers’ battle with Lung Cancer. The more I learned, the more I understood, the more I accepted and the more I questioned. This has become my therapy. It is our hope that you find the information that you are looking for. The search links are edited manually to enhance the search results. Feel free to recommend links. We do not agree with every site in the directory but feel it should be your decision to use it, not ours. Please acquire as much information as you can. Trust yourself.

Medical News Today

• Description: The most comprehensive medical news site.
• Quality: The latest Cancer News & Oncology News articles published daily. Includes news on the physical, chemical and biologic properties and features of neoplasms, tumors, symptoms, treatments, causes and risk factors.

OncoLink

• Description: Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
• Quality: OncoLink has created an individualized plan of care based on the Institute of Medicine recommendations for cancer survivors. This free and easy to use program provides cancer survivors with information regarding the health risks they face as a result of cancer therapies. It encourages them to review the plan with their healthcare team to further assess their risk and become active participants in their follow up care.

Prevent Cancer Now

• Description: Staff and volunteers have been hard at work over the past few months on our new website and logo. You will see a similar look in our newsletter. Better still, there’s even more information on what Prevent Cancer Now is doing to help prevent cancer, and what you can do now to protect youself and your loved ones.
• Quality: Detailed list of editors and organizers.

The American Cancer Society

• Description: Project of the American Cancer Society
• Quality: The American Cancer Society is your trusted source for news about cancer. Read about the latest in cancer research, how cancer affects your life, and survivors' stories of hope.

Topix Cancer

• Description: A Top 10 online newspaper destination (comScore, March 2008), the site links news from 50,000 sources to 360,000 lively user-generated forums.
• Quality: News on Cancer continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.