Overviews on Cancer Tests & Decisions

General

What You Need to Know About™ Cancer - National Cancer Institute (NCI) - Look at Laboratory Tests, Imaging, Biopsy, and Staging

Tests and Procedures – People Living with Cancer
Look at Tests to Diagnose Cancer

Screening and Testing for Specific Cancers - NCI

Cancer Imaging – NCI - X-rays, CT scans, MRI's, PET scans, and more

Decision Making and Quality of Life

Advance Directives - Hospice and Palliative Care Federation This is information on Informed Consent, Durable Power of Attorney, Proxy and more

Seeking a Second Opinion – People Living with Cancer

Websites

• CancerGuide: Steve Dunn’s Cancer Information Page
  From a cancer survivor's viewpoint
• The Harvard Medical School Family Health Guide: Diagnostic Tests
• Lab Tests Online

General Websites

• American Cancer Society
• Cancer Care
• National Cancer Institute
• People Living With Cancer - an ASCO website

Connect With Others

• Association of Cancer Online Resources (ACOR)
  Mailing Lists -offers a wide variety of email discussion groups on many cancer types and topics
  OncoChat - offers live chat with cancer survivors, their families and friends
  
  
• American Cancer Society
  Cancer Survivors Network offers a variety of ways to communicate with others
  
  
• Cancer Care
  Telephone Support Groups offers groups that connect by using the telephone
  Online Support Group post messages on their moderated electronic bulletin board
  
  
• CarePages
  CarePages offers a way to keep family and friends informed during medical treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Revised 2008

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