Cancer Resources

PHY106
Science for the 21st Century
Syracuse University

General Health Information

• Healthfinder — launched 4/15/97 by U.S. government to help consumers sort out health info on the Internet
  • from federal government, state and local agencies, not-for-profit organizations, and universities
  • e.g., search "cancer" in general, or try specific types or issues
• Martindale's Health Science Guide
• Go Ask Alice! — a health question & answer service by Healthwise @ Columbia University

Special Report

• Cancer Wars — MSNBC special report

Cancer Information

• See collections of links at this PBS Nova site, associated with the Nova program, Cancer Warrior, about Judah Folkman and his pioneering work on angiogenesis inhibitors.
• OncoLink, The University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center Resource
  • p53 Information Center
    • Molecule of the Year: p53 (so named by Science magazine 1994)
    • 3D-structure of p53 bound to DNA
• NCCS Guide to Cancer Resources: Cansearch
• Cancer Biology Lecture I
• American Cancer Society General Patient Information
• CancerGuide: How to Access MedLine (And UnCover)
• NCI's CancerNet Cancer Information
• Consumer Health Information
• Cancer News on the Net
• CancerGuide
• An Introduction to Skin Cancer
• Pathology Page
  • Breast Cancer
  • Lung Cancer
• Cancer Sites of General Interest

Breast Cancer

• Breast Cancer: General Information — OncoLink (Penn)
• National Action Plan On Breast Cancer
• Y-ME National Breast Cancer Organization
• National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations
• NCI's Breast Cancer Information for Patients — National Cancer Institute
• Office on Women's Health — Department of Health and Human Services

Smoking

• The Master Anti-Smoking Page
• Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
• Nicotine Junkies — from The Why Files (Science Behind the News; Wisconsin)
• CDC's Tobacco Information & Prevention Sourcepage — Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• ACS Hot Links — American Cancer Society
• ACS Smokeout 96
• AMA Releases - AMA's Tobacco Fight: Round Fifteen — American Medical Association
• Smoke in the Eye
• Tobacco Litigation — The Wilmington Institute, Dallas
• Tobacco on the Web — PBS Frontline
• Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids