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PAIN MANAGEMENT

Resource Center for State Cancer Pain Initiative
website:www.wisc.edu/molpharm/wcpi
Provides an advocacy network concerning cancer pain.

Roxane Pain Institute
website: www.Roxane.com/Roxane/PRI
Cancer and AIDS pain management educational materials. Downloadable pain management slide show, dates of lectures/ seminars, and links to patient and professional "libraries."

PALLIATIVE/HOSPICE CARE, GRIEF, AND BEREAVEMENT

Bereavement and Hospice Support Netline
websites: www.ubalt.edu and www.bereavement.com
Public service on-line directory of bereavement
support groups.

Choice in Dying
1035 30th Street Nw
Washington, DC 20007
800-989-WILL, 202-338-9790 fax: 202-338-0242
e-mail: cid@choices.org
website: www.choices.org
Advocates recognition and protection of individual rights at the end oflife. Provides counseling regarding preparing and using living wills and durable powers of attorney for health care.

Dying Well
website: www.dyingwell.com
Resources for patients and families facing life-limiting illness.

The End of Life: Exploring Death in America
www.npr.org/programs/death
National Public Radio's transcripts of programs in its ongoing series about death and dying in America, available with a resource guide and personal stories posted by site visitors. Selections from novels and short stories, poems, religious rituals, clinical research, scripts for plays and television, and radio programs.

Grief Net
website: www.griefnet.org
A system that connects to a variety of resources related to death, dying, bereavement, and major emotional and physical losses. Offers information as well as discussion/support groups. Has a section for children as well.

Make Today Count
c/o Connie Zimmerman
St. John's Mid-America Cancer Center
1235 E. Cherokee
Springfield, MO 65804-2263
800-432-2273 fax: 417-888-8761
A mutual support organization that brings together persons affected by a life-threatening illness so they may help each other.

National Hospice Organization (NHO)
1901 North Moore Street, Suite 901
Arlington, VA 22209
703-243-5900, 800-658-8898 fax: 703-525-5762
e-mail: drsnho@cais.com
website: www.nho.org
Hospice HelpIine helps callers find a hospice in their area.

PREVENTION

American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR)
1759 R Street NW
Washington, DC 20009
800-843-8114 202-328-7744 fax: 202-328-7226
website: www.aicr.org
Focuses on the link between diet and cancer, supports research in this field nationwide, and provides a wide range of free educational publications.

SURVIVORS

National Cancer Survivors Day (NCSD) Foundation
P.O. Box 682285
Franklin, TN 37068-2285
615-794-3006 fax: 615-794-0179
e-mail: ncsd@aol.com
website: www.ncsdf.org
NCSD is the world's largest cancer survivor event and is celebrated on the first Sunday in June of each year in more than seven hundred communities throughout North America. A free celebration planning kit is available from the foundation.

National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS)
1010 Wayne Avenue
Silver Spring, MD 20910
888-650-9127 fax: 301-565-9670
e-mail: info@cansearch.org
website: www.cansearch.org
The only patient-led organization advocating on behalf of survivors of all types of cancer. NCCS's mission is to lead and strengthen the survivorship movement, empower cancer survivors, and advocate for policy issues that affect cancer survivors' quality oflife.

The Park Ridge Center
website: www.Prchfe.org/publications/bulletin/7.html
The center's bulletin focuses on spirituality in health care.

Patient Advocate Foundation (PAP)
780 Pilot House Drive, Suite 100C
Newport News, VA 23606
800-532-5274 757-873-6668 fax: 757-873-8999
website: www.patientadvocate.org
Provides patient edu- cation relative to managed-care terminology and policy issues that may affect coverage, legal intervention services, and counseling to resolve job and insurance problems.

TRANSPORTATION

Corporate Angel Network, Inc. (CAN)
One Loop Road, Westchester County Airport
White Plains, NY 10604
914-328-1313
website: www.corpangelnetwork.org
Provides free plane transportation for cancer patients going to and from recognized cancer treatment centers by using empty seats aboard corporate aircraft operating on business flights. There are no financial requirements or limits on number of trips.

National Patient Air Transport Helpline (NPATH)
P.O. Box 1940
Manassas, VA 20108-0804
800-296-1217 fax: 757-318-9107
e-mail: npathrnsg@aol.com
website: www.npath.org
Makes referrals to charitable and special discounted patient medical air transport services, based on an evaluation of patients' needs.

WOMEN

Mautner Project for Lesbians with Cancer
1707 I Street Nw; Suite 500
Washington, DC 20036
202-332-5536 fax: 202-332-0662
e-mail: mautner@mautnerproject.org
website: http:/ /www.mautnerproject.org
Provides support, education, information, and advocacy for health issues relating to lesbians with cancer, their partners, and their families.

National Women's Health Information Center
Office of Women's Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC
Provides access to women's health information from the federal government and the private sector.

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