To visit a site click on the name.

Journals

1. New England Journal of Medicine: Published by the Massachuetts Medical Society. The abstracts of reports of original clinical research and reports of research on health policy are available online. If you wish to read an entire article, you can have it sent to you by mail or fax. In addition, the full text of the following features is available online: Images in Clinical Medicine, Editorials, Sounding Board articles (opinion pieces), Correspondence, and Book Reviews.

2. Journal of Clinical Oncology: The Official Journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Your Librarian presumes only abstracts are available.

3. Cancer Control: Journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center. Complete articles are available online.

4. Journal of the American Medical Association: The Amercan Medical Association's web site contains abstracts from JAMA, and a searchable data base of information on doctors (they need not be a member of the AMA to be found here).

Organizations

1. National breast Cancer Coalition is a grassroots advocacy organization dedicated to fighting breast cancer. NBCC was formed in 1991 with the mission to eradicate breast cancer through action and advocacy. Their web site is designed to help others join them in this endeavor.

2. Association of Cancer Online Resources: Run by Gilles Frydman, ACOR has 70 online cancer support groups.

3. Y-ME National breast Cancer Organization: The Y-ME National breast Cancer Organization provides information and support to anyone who has been touched by breast cancer. It was founded by two breast cancer patients in 1978, when they realized that their needs for information and support could best be met by women who had also experienced breast cancer. Since its beginning, Y-ME has served women with breast cancer and their families and friends--through a national hotline, open door groups, early detection workshops and many local chapters. Their peer support programs--breast cancer patients talking with survivors, and spouses of patients talking with spouses of survivors--helps thousands of people each year who are concerned about or personally affected by breast cancer.

4. Breast Cancer Survivors: Is an Orange County, California non-profit organization which raises money to support breast cancer patients who need financial assistance for basic living expenses while they are in treatment.

Government

1. National Cancer Institute: The NCI site provides cancer information online.

2. SEER Home Page: The SEER Program of the National Cancer Institute collects and publishes cancer incidence and survival data from population-based cancer registries covering approximately 14 percent of the U.S. population.

3. National Library of Medicine: source of medical information from the National Institutes of Health. You can go directly to their LocatorPlus web page to search for books, journals, turtorials and guides in the NLM collections. You can also access PubMed and MedlinePlus from the Locator page.

Web Resources

1. RXmed: A searchable data base of prescription drugs. You must know the name of the drug to find it, and this can be trickier than one would think. Tamoxifen, for instance, is listed under TAMOFEN.

2. Medscape: Contains a wealth of information on things medical. You must register to use the site, but the process is free and fairly painless. After you are registered not only can you access all sorts of information, but you receive email news updates on the area of your particular interest. Don't know who is paying for it all, but it is great.

3. Medical Search Engines:This site contains the search engines for a whole bunch of medical information sources available on the web. Real handy.

4. Medical Dictionary: An online dictionary of medical terms, rather bare bones definitions, but lots of entries.

5. ECRI: A non-profit group that evaluates the effectiveness of health care technology. They have had major reports on such things as high dose chemo and whether to enter a clinical trial. Worth a look.

6. Ed Uthman, the Web Pathologist: For an interesting experience, but a very long download on a dial-up, visit his home page. He will correspond by email with those who have questions (he was thrilled that I was interested in his Java Applet Chess pages). Among the many things you can find are extensive, and relatively brief descriptions, of the blood tests likely to be ordered by your oncologist, a Patient's Guide to the biopsy report, and tons of other fascinating, if not exactly germane, things.

7. Oncolink: Oncolink is a Really Big site on cancer maintained by the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center. They used to keep the BC List Archives, but don't do that any more. Too bad. But if you want a place to start doing web research on cancer, this is probably it.

8. Cancer Supportive Care: The BC List's own Alexandra Andrews is webmaster for this site, based on the book Cancer Supportive Care by Ernest H. Rosenbaum, MD and Isadora R. Rosenbaum, MA. This program is for patients undergoing radiation therapy, surgery, chemotherapy, or immunotherapy and is currently a part of the Stanford Complementary Medicine Clinic (UCSF Stanford Health Care). The web pages contain really useful information from the book.

9. Cancerlynx, subtitled "We Prowl the Net," is a somewhat different sort of cancer site. They feature articles written specifically for them, a web tutorial which those new to the Internet would really appreciate, a way to search for books by topic, and at least two of the people involved--Pete Bevin and Alexandra Andrews, are on the BC list.

10. breastCancer.Net is the home site for the breast Cancer Newsletter, maintained by Steven Sickles. The focus is on recent news about breast cancer, but there is plenty of other stuff as well, including pages to help you find a support group, treatment centers, articles, and an extensive, and well organized, list of links.