Native American Cancer Education for Survivors (NACES) Quality of Life (QOL) Tree.

1. The information laid out like a tree with a trunk, limbs, branches and leaves.
2. There is a lot of information. You can look at a single section (leaf) or as much information as you want (or is available so far).
3. The trunk has survey questions that help to personalize the information by highlight leaves (topics) of special interest to you or your type of breast cancer
4. The large limbs include major quality of life areas
• Spirituality
• Communication
• Treatment
• Clinical trials
• Health Information
• Treatment side effects
• More health problems (also called "co-morbidities" (diabetes and cancer; arthritis and cancer)
• Help & Support
• The branches are individual education topics. For example, under the "side effects" limb, there are branches on hair loss, lymphedema, fatigue and pain.
1. NACES is constantly adding more topics. Many of these are based on how survivors' respond to items on the surveys. This helps us identify which topics are of most need and interest to survivors than are other topics.
5. Other symbols
• The Hummingbird on the tree shows you where you are
• The Teepee returns you to the NACR home page
• The Tree returns you to the NACES main page
• The Storyteller gives you a story based on several other Native survivors to help show you how others have dealt with a problem.
• The Question mark gives you questions to ask your provider (in a branch & on the sidebar)
• The Bear gives you answers to questions and comments from prior visitors
• The Book sends you definition pages where you can look up words you do not understand and/or would like definitions of.
• The Phone gives you the toll free phone number to reach the Privacy Broker in case you have forgotten your code name or need a new one. They can help you get the education information or other information not yet available on the site.
• The Compass sends you to a site map where it might be easier for you to find your topics of interest.

Overview of information for cancer survivors

This site contains many resources for survivors like you. Click to learn more about:

• Interactive Features - How this site is "interactive," to make information customized and easy to understand.

• Storytellers - Keeping with Native American traditions of storytelling, health information is explained in real and fictional stories from other survivors.

• Privacy Broker - Read how the "privacy broker" keeps your personal information secret.

• Help - General help about using this site, or setting up your computer.

• Future plans - We’ve just begun! Find out more about some of the exciting plans NACR is working on.