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Understanding Cancer

Cancer Information Service

National Cancer Institute - Also known as the Cancer.gov site, this is one of the better places to go for accurate, credible cancer information

National Institutes of Health

Cancerfacts.com - An online resource for people with cancer, their families, and caregivers that is dedicated to delivering accurate and personalized information. The Cancer ProfilerT interactive decision support tools help people with cancer make informed treatment decisions.

MedlinePlus - a health database maintained by NIH's National Library of Medicine.

About Cancer Guide - a very good comprehensive cancer information source

OncoLink - an outstanding oncology information resource (University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center)

Cancer Help - a comprehensive Cancer Resources On The Internet. Authored by Robert W. Neill, Jr.

Cancerbackup - the UK's Leading Cancer Information Service

Cancer.com - was created with the help of an expert panel of cancer advocates that specialize in the areas of general cancer, cancer research, cancer clinical trials, minorities, and others. It is industry sponsored

New York Online Access to Health (Pregúntale a NOAH Sobre la Salud)

Medical Dictionaries

National Cancer Institute

MedlinePlus

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