Common Cancer Types:
Prostate, Breast, Cervical, Lung, Skin, Colorectal, Childhood, Bladder, Endometrial, Kidney, Leukemia, Lymphoma, Oral and Pharyngeal, Pancreatic, Thyroid
General Cancer Information Resources:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The American Cancer Society, The National Cancer Institute, Office of Minority Health, CDC Cancer (in Spanish)
North Carolina Cancer Centers:
Duke Comprehensive Cancer Centers, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Wake Forest University Comprehensive Cancer Center, American College of Surgeons-Commission on Cancer
Care and Caregivers:
10 Tips for Family Caregivers, A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, A Guide for Caregivers of Farmers and Ranchers with Disabilities, Caring Advice for Caregivers, The Effects of Cancer Survivorship
on Families and Caregivers, Partners of Cancer Survivors at Risk for Depression, Ways That I Can Ask for Help as I Meet the Challenges of My Illness
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Care and Treatment:
Care, Care for the Disabled, NCI-Comprehensive Cancer Centers
Financial Assistance:
Patient Advocate Foundation Co-Pay Relief, Supplemental Security Income, SSI, NC Medicaid Program, Medicare, Insure Kids Now, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Needy Meds, Me Fine Foundation, Inc., Cancer Fund of America, NC Cancer Assistance Unit, NACo Prescription Drug Discount Card Program
Clinical Trials:
ClinicalTrials.Gov Research Information, CenterWatch - Clinical Trials Listing Service, Coalition of Cancer Cooperative Groups, Project CONNECT, metaRegister of Controlled Trials, Duke Health.org, The Carolina Center for Clinical Trials, Wake Forest Comprehensive Cancer Center Clinical Trials, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Southeast Cancer Control Consortium, Inc
Programs:
Wisewoman Program, NC Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program
In June 2006, at age 25, I went to Forsyth Medical Center, ER,for severe pain and obvious weight gain in my stomach area. I had surgery on July 14, 2006, to remove what was now being called a tumor. I was sent to Duke Medical Center, on August 14, 2006 where I would go through 6 rounds of Chemo, going every 3 weeks. I am reminded of my cancer everyday, I might think about it less, and it might fade from thoughts some, but just like the scar on my stomach cancer really never goes away. You realize that life is precious, and you really can't afford to live anywhere but in the present.- Haley Mallert, Winston-Salem
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