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Aging
Alternative and Complementary Therapies
Bone Marrow Transplantation
Caregivers
Children
Newsletters & Magazines

AGING

U.S. Administration on Aging
website: aoa.dhhs.gov
Information for older persons, families, practitioners, researchers, students, and the aging network.

The American Geriatrics Society
website: www.americangeriatrics.org
Links to AGS publications, selected bibliography, consumer education, related news.

ALTERNATIVE AND COMPLEMENTARY THERAPIES

Bibliographic Summary of Information
website: cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/rosenthal/databases/AM_databases.html

NIH Office of Alternative Medicine Citation Index
website: altmed.od.nih.gov/oam/resource/cam-ci

University of Texas Center for Alternative Medicine Research in Cancer
website: chprd.sph.uth.trnc.edu/utcam

BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION

Blood & Marrow Transplant (BMT) Newsletter
2900 Skokie Valley Road
Highland Park, IL 60035
847-433-3313,888-597-5674 fax: 847-433-4599
e-mail: help@bmtnews.org
website: www.bmtnews.org
Publishes a quarterly newsletter and a book for bone marrow, peripheral
stem cell, and cord blood transplant patients. Offers an attorney list to help
resolve insurance problems, as well as a "patient-to-survivor telephone
link."

National Bone Marrow Transplant Link (NBMT Link)
29209 Northwestern Highway, #624
Southfield, MI 48034
800-LINK-BMT fax: 248-932-8483
website: comnet.org/nbmtlink
Provides peer support to BMT patients and their families. Serves as an information center for prospective BMT patients and health professionals. NBMT Link offers three educational publications.

National Marrow Donor Program
3433 Broadway Street NE, Suite 500
Minneapolis, MN 55413
800-MARROW-2 fax: 612-627-8125
website: www.marrow.org
Network maintains a data bank of available tissue-typed marrow donor volunteers nationwide. Program provides information and support to patients in search of an unrelated marrow donor.

CAREGIVERS

Caregiver Network
website: www.caregiver.on.ca:80/index.html
Canadian-based; bulletin board, links, and support for caregivers.

Family Caregiver Alliance
690 Market Street, Suite 600
San Francisco, CA 94104
415-434-3388 fax: 415-434-3508
e-mail:info@caregiver.org
website: www.caregiver.org
Help for caregivers, featuring support groups '" and resource guide for families coping with cancer and other disorders.

Well Spouse Foundation
30 East 40 Street
New York, NY 10016
212-685-8815, 800-838-0879 fax: 212-685-8676
e-mail: wellspouse@aol.com
Association of spousal caregivers.

CHILDREN

Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation
7910 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 460
Bethesda, MD 20814-3015
301-657-8401, 800-366-2223 fax: 301-718-2686
e-mail: info@candlelighters.org
websites: www.candlelighters.org and www.candle.org
Provides information, support, and advocacy to families of children with cancer, survivors of childhood cancer, and professionals who work with them.

Children Coping with Grief and Dying
website: www.Grannyg.bc.ca/ckid-book.grief.html
Books dealing with aspects of grief and loss from the perspective of children. Collected by Lee Anne Phillips. Provides brief description of each book, but no ordering from site.

Friends Network
P.O. Box 4545
Santa Barbara, CA 93140
805-693-1017
website: www.cancerfunletter.com
Offers a cancer activities bimonthly newsletter (Funletter) for kids and additional support for patients and families.

Kids Konnected
27071 Cabot Road, Suite 102
Laguna Hills, CA 92653
800-899-2866, 949-582-5443 fax: 949-582-3989
e-mail: JWH@kids-konnected.org
website: www.kidskonnected.org
Provides friendship, education, understanding, and support to kids who have a parent with cancer.

National Childhood Cancer Foundation (NCCF)
440 East Huntington, P.O. Box 60012
Arcadia, CA 91066-6012
626-447-1674, 800-458-6223
website: www.nccf.org
Supports nationwide clinical and laboratory research on causes, treatments, and cures for childhood cancer, and advocates to benefit children with cancer.

Pediatric Pain Research Laboratory
website: is.dal.ca/~pedpain
Affiliated with Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Provides professional research and self-help resources related to children in pain.

Ronald McDonald House. Ronald McDonald House Charities
One Kroc Drive
Oak Brook, IL 60523
630-623-7048 fax: 630-623-7488
website: www.rmhc.com
Offers a refuge from the hospital, a "home- away-from-home."

NEWSLETTERS AND MAGAZINES

Coping with Cancer
P.O. Box 682268
Franklin, TN 37068-2268
615- 790-2400 fax: 615-794-0179
e-mail: copingmag@aol.com
Consumer magazine for people whose lives have been touched by cancer. Provides knowledge, hope, and inspiration nom cancer survivors and health care professionals. Provides official annual coverage of National Cancer Survivors Day and is a national sponsor.

International Cancer Alliance (ICA)
4853 Cordell Avenue, Suite 11
Bethesda, MD 2081,
800-1 CARE-61 fax: 301-654-8684
e-mail: sysent@ari.net
website: www.icare.org
Provides a free cancer therapy review, which includes information on a specific type of cancer ( description, detection and staging, treatment, and clinical trials). Cancer Breakthroughs (a newsletter) is sent quarterly

Melanoma Update
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Box 421, 1275 York Avenue
New York, NY 10021
A free newsletter for melanoma patients and their families. Excerpts news articles about melanoma and provides commentary on the information by professionals working in melanoma. Published twice a year.

The Sarcoma Newsletter
Department of Social Work, MSKCC
1275 York Avenue
New York, NY 10021
Provides patients with important information about the disease, treatment, side effects, resources for information, places to help, and stories from survivors.

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