GENERAL RESOURCES

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American Cancer Society, Inc. (ACS)
1599 Clifton Road, NE
Atlanta, GA 30329
800-ACS-2345
website: http://www.cancer.org
Programs include Children's I I Camps, Hope Lodge, I Can Cope, Look Good...Feel Better, Man to Man, Reach to Recovery, Road to Recovery, and TLC. Dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem through prevention, saving lives, and diminishing suffering, by means of research, education, advocacy, and service.

Association of Cancer Online Resources
website: www.acor.org
Online resources for cancer patients, caregivers, health professionals, and basic research scientists.

RJL Block Cancer Foundation, Inc.
The Cancer Hotline
4435 Main Street
Kansas City, MO 64111
800-433-0464 816-932-8453 fax: 816- 931-7486
e-mail: hotline@hrblock.com
websites: www.block.cancer.org, www.blast.cancer.org
Hotline matches newly diagnosed cancer patients with others who have survived the same kind of cancer. Offers free information, resources, and support groups, and distributes lists of multidisciplinary "second opinion centers." Also supplies three books at no charge: Fighting Cancer, Cancer...There's Hope, and Guide for Cancer Supporters.

Cancer Care, Inc.
275 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10001
212-302- 2400, 800-813-HOPE (fax: 212-719-0263
e-mail: info@cancercare.org
website: www.cancercare.org
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.

Gilda's Club
195 W Houston Street
New York, NY 10014
212-647- 9700 fax: 212-647-1151
website: www.gildasclub.org
A free, nonprofit program in which people with cancer and their families and friends join with others to build social and emotional support as a supplement to medical care in a nonresidential, homelike setting. Nineteen locations nationwide.

Look Good...Feel Better
1101 17th Street NW; Suite 300
Washington, DC 20036-4702
1-800-395-LOOK
website: www.1gtb.org
This free public service program helps women undergoing treatment for cancer to overcome the possible physical side effects of receiving chemotherapy and/or radiation. The program is sponsored by the Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association Foundation, The American Cancer Society, and the National Cosmetology Association.

MSKWeb
website: www.mskcc.org
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's website provides a wide range of information for medical professionals, patients, their families, and the general public.

National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Cancer Information Service
800-4-CANCER fax 301-402-5874
website: www.nci.nih.gov
Provides a nationwide telephone service that answers questions and sends out booklets about cancer. Includes information about cancer treatment, screening, prevention, and supportive care.

Cancer Net
To get the Cancer Net contents list by e-mail, send an e-mail message that says "help" in the body of the message to cancernet@icicc.nci.nih.gov.

Cancer Trials
website: cancertrials.nci.nih.gov
This website provides up-to-date information on cancer clinical trials.

PDQ (Physician Data Query)
800-4-CANCER
website:www:nci.nih.gov
Computerized listing of up-to-date, accurate information on the latest types of cancer treatments, clinical trials, and organizations and doctors involved in caring for people with cancer.

National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN)
800-ACS-2345, 888-909-NCCN
website: www.nccn.org
A coalition of eighteen comprehensive cancer centers has developed regularly updated guidelines for cancer treatment. Treatment guidelines available from numbers listed above as well as from In-Touch Magazine.

OncoLink
University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center
3400 Spruce Street, 2 Donner
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-349-8895 fax: 215-349-5445
e-mail: editors@oncolink.upenn.edu
website:www.oncolink.upenn.edu
Provides information about specific types of cancer, updates on cancer treatments, and news about research advances.

Vital Options TeleSupport Cancer Network
The Group Room Radio Talk Show
P.O. Box 19233
Encino, CA 91416-9233
818-788-5225 fax: 818-788-5260
website: www.vitaloptions.org
A weekly syndicated call-in cancer talk show linking callers with other patients, long-term survivors, family members, physicians, researchers, and therapists experienced in working with cancer issues.

The Wellness Community
35 East 7th Street Suite 412
Cincinnati, OH 45202
888-793-WELL, 513-421-7111 fax: 513-421-7119
e-mail:help@wellness-community.org
website: www.wellness-community.org
Provides professionally led support groups nationwide and education, stress management, and social networking in a homelike community setting with a focus on enhancing health and well-being. Twenty facilities nationwide.

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