Overviews on All About Treatment

Advanced Cancer - General
Advanced Cancer: Living Each Day - National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Cancer Overview: If Treatment Stops Working - People Living With Cancer

Decisions/Quality of Life
Transitional Care Planning - NCI/PDQ® -Quality of life concerns
Patient Consumer Level - Consumer level
Health Professional - Written in medical language

End-of-Life Care: Artificial Hydration and Nutrition - American Academy of Family Physicians

End-of-Life Care: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) - American Academy of Family Physicians

Fact Sheet: End-of-Life Decision Making - Family Caregiver Alliance

Home Care - General
Home Care for Cancer Patients - National Cancer Institute (NCI)

How to Choose a Home Care Provider National Association for Home Care - Starts with "What is Home Care?"

Home Care Guide for Advanced Cancer - American College of Physicians

Fact Sheet: Hiring In-Home Help - Family Caregiver Alliance

Hospice Care
Hospice - NCI

Cancer Overview: Hospice Care - People Living With Cancer

Hospice Care - Hospice and Palliative Care Federation

All About Hospice: A Consumer's Guide - Hospice Association of America

Dying
Dying with Cancer: Coping with the News - CancerBACUP

What to do Before and After the Moment of Death: Home Care Guide for Advanced Cancer  - American College of Physicians

Loss

Grief and Loss  - Family Caregiver Alliance Fact Sheet

Grief Articles - Grief, Loss & Recovery

GriefNet Library - GriefNet

Websites

• Compassionate Friends
• Dougy Center: The National Center for Grieving Children and Families
• Grief Loss & Recovery
• GriefNet - Death and dying resources
• Hospice Association of America
• Hospice & Palliative Care Federation
• National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
• Willowgreen - Grief, illness, transition, caregiving

General Websites

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

Connect With Others

• Compassionate Friends - Grief support after the death of a child

• GriefNet - Death and dying resources; offers email support groups.

• 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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