Resources
You may want more information for yourself, your family, and your doctor. The following National Cancer Institute (NCI) services are available to help you.
Cancer Information Service (CIS)
Provides accurate, up-to-date information on cancer to patients and their families, health professionals, and the general public. Information specialists translate the latest scientific information into understandable language and respond in English, Spanish, or on TTY equipment.
Toll-free: 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237)
TTY: 1-800-332-8615
Cancer.gov
NCI's Web site provides comprehensive information about cancer causes and
prevention, screening and diagnosis, treatment and survivorship; clinical trials;
statistics; funding and training; and the Institute's programs and research activities.
The ADA is a professional society of registered dietitians and other
professionals working in food- and nutrition-related fields. For
a referral to a registered dietitian in your area and to listen
to recorded food and nutrition messages, call the ADA's consumer
nutrition hotline at 1-800-366-1655. Or, visit the ADA's home page on the World
Wide Web at http://www.eatright.org.
Cancer patients, their families and friends, and others may find
the following National Cancer Institute books useful. They are available
free of charge by calling 1-800-4-CANCER.
The
National Cancer Institute and the U.S. Department of Agriculture
and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have published
several materials on healthy eating. You may find them helpful after
your treatment is over. They include:
The
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has published a booklet called
"The Unwelcome Dinner Guest: Preventing Food-Borne Illness,"
which contains useful information and tips on symptoms of food-borne
illness, safe food storage, safe cooking and storing temperatures,
safe food handling, and other topics related to preventing food-borne
illness. Cancer patients and others with weakened immune systems
need to be careful about food-borne illness, so this booklet may
be especially helpful. To get up to 10 free copies write the FDA
Office of Consumer Affairs:
Food and Drug Administration
Office of Consumer Affairs
5600 Fishers Lane
Room 1685, HFE 88
Rockville, MD 20857
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