Top Cancer Websites: Ones that Offer the Most Helpful and Beneficial Information

Do you need to know more information about cancer? Unsure where to go to find out more information through the different stages of cancer or just wish to know more? Here are seven websites that are very informative forms of this second deadly disease in America. It is a fact that just in 2007 more than 1.4 million new cancer cases will be diagnosed and around 560,000 cancer deaths will occur just in the United States alone. It is everyone’s duty to research this disease to increase awareness that will later increase potential cures for this deadly disease. Scientists around the world are working on it, are you?

1. The Cancer Prevention Coalition is a website that deals with nationwide coalition of leading independent experts in cancer prevention and public health, together with citizen activists and representatives of organized labor, public interest, environmental, and women’s health groups. Together, the website and over 100 offices nationwide try to reduce cancer rates by creating an outreach program, public education, advocacy, and public policy initiatives to establish prevention as the nation’s foremost cancer policy. Specifically on the website are articles that help people to avoid the exposure to cancer causing agents such as common household carcinogens. Click Here

2. Healing Cancer Naturally is an extensive knowledge base that focuses on the extensive field of alternative non-intrusive healing modalities for cancer that have been proven to work with other patients. It is a great resource for those patients seeking information for alternative medicine options.
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3. Annie Apple Seed Project is a non-profit organization that reaches out to provide information, education, advocacy and aware for people with cancer about complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). It is a great resource for those considering CAM instead of more traditional medicines.
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4. The American Cancer Society is nationwide, community-based voluntary health organization that works out of Atlanta, Georgia. This society is fighting cancer through research programs, education, patient service, advocacy, and rehabilitation. It is a website that is available to anyone seeking more information about cancer – it is not strictly for cancer patients. Actually, the website goes over current concerns to prevent cancer (such as using sun screen) and is basically a fund raising society. Therefore, it does contain some information about support programs nationally and internationally however contains more information about how to support the cause. This is a good preventative website and funding website instead of being informative like the others available.
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5. Susan G. Komen for the Cure is an organization setup to race for the cure. It is mainly written for breast cancer survivors and activists. This is one of the more famous websites because the organization does a lot of fund raising events and public announcements to inform others about breast cancer. Continuously fighting for the cure forever, the Komen Organization contains information on how to get involved with fund raising down to how to do a breast cancer at-home breast inspection. In addition, there is a wonderful helpline that can be called to assist those going through cancer and have some questions. Although this website strictly works with breast cancer, I think it is an important website for everyone to visit since they reaching out to the community and taking leaps to find the cure. Click Here

6. The National Cancer Institute is a fantastic website setup by the government to provide assistance and ongoing research to find the cure to this deadly disease. The website has many advantages such as a helpline that can be telephoned, e-mailed or even instant messaged to find out more information or if you just have a question about cancer. There are always representatives there to assist a person will need. It also provides articles on current clinical trials, a dictionary or medical terminology and a chance to help fund the research against cancer. Click Here

7. People Living with Cancer is a fantastic website that has been created by a group of Oncologists from the American Society of Clinical Oncology. There are eight sections that are available on this website which are statistics, general information, coping, survivorship, library, other resources and other news and events. This website is also available in Spanish! If you have already been diagnosed with cancer or someone close to has been, there is a guide on the right side of the main page that any specific cancer title can be chosen. After choosing a specific cancer type, numerous articles and information will popup to cater to your very needs for that type of cancer. Click Here

8. The National Association of Cancer Patients is a wonderful website for patients that are entering into this difficult time in the disease process. The site offers information about the disease and offers a search guide to find doctors that are located in your area. It also offers the option of giving donations and offers articles on current research that patients can keep up on. The information is slightly difficult to understand though, seeing that it is strictly a medical website. Click Here

9. Cancer Patient Care is a website that I just came across recently that offers solutions to low-income families with cancer patients. It is a great website if you are worried about the expensive costs of medical treatments. The main focus is to provide assistance to patients located in Washington and Idaho however will help anyone in need. In addition, as many patients are aware, moving is very common to get the best coverage that is needed for this disease.
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10. Cancer Guide is another website that I found to be very helpful for patients that are going through the process of eliminating this disease from the body. It provides inspirational patient stories that will reach anyone’s heart. The site has stories from other patients that have gone through over 100 different types of cancer, so everyone can find something. It is just a great website to understand what other people have gone through and what to expect. In addition, it is a website of faith and insight for future trials and errors. Click Here