CancerBACUP
CancerBACUP, a United Kingdom charitable organisation, was founded in 1985 by Dr Vicky Clement-Jones who refused to be defeated by her diagnosis of inoperable ovarian cancer. Given only three months to live, she realised that patients were in desperate need of good quality information, practical advice and emotional support but could find none. She decided to establish a national cancer information service called BACUP (British Association of Cancer United Patients - and their families and friends). She actually survived five years, long enough to establish CancerBACUP and be assured of its success. [You can read her personal account of why she decided to set up BACUP here]. Their mission is to give cancer patients and their families up-to-date information, practical advice and the support they need to reduce the fear and uncertainty of cancer. While the resources and support they offer may only be directly beneficial to patients living in Britain, the site contains a wealth of information on cancer for both lay people and health professionals. It has a section on cancer type which is clearly written and easy to understand by everyone.

American Cancer Society
The American Cancer Society is one of the oldest and largest voluntary health agencies in the United States. The society funds programmes for research, cancer prevention, detection and treatment and also patient support. The ACS site provides information about cancer, cancer treatment, support groups and services, and special health needs of patients and survivors. It also produces some Asian language materials in Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese, which you can view here on cancer facts for men and women, colon testing and taking control of your life to reduce cancer risk.

The Captain Chemo Website
This web site is based on the comic strip, The Adventures of Captain Chemo, created by Ben de Garis who was diagnosed with lymphoma at age 13 and treated at The Royal Marsden Hospital, England. He produced this informative cartoon strip with information on cancer because he could not find suitable information on cancer for teenagers. It has now turned into an interactive game to inform and educate children and teenagers about various aspects of cancer and its treatment. The information is written clearly and may also be of interest to adults.

CancerHelp UK
This site was founded in 1995 by Nick James, a cancer specialist, and the late Sally Tweedle, an educationalist whose husband developed cancer then. The site has information on specific cancer types and clinical trials for cancer in Britain. CancerHelp UK is supported and managed by Cancer Research UK, the world’s largest independent organization dedicated to cancer research. It was formed by the merger of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and The Cancer Research Campaign in February 2002.

OncoLink
OncoLink was founded in 1994 by the cancer specialists of the University of Pennsylvania, USA. Its mission is to help cancer patients, families, health care professionals and the general public to obtain free and accurate cancer-related information. You can visit the OncoLink Library which contains summaries of cancer related journal articles, links to peer – reviewed journals and ScienceDirect. There is an OncoLink ‘Ask the Expert’ section which allows you to pose questions to their expert panel but they do not answer all questions posed. You can however view some of the most recently answered questions on certain cancers, treatment or symptoms.

People Living With Cancer
People Living With Cancer (PLWC) is a site within the website of the American Society of Clinical Oncology or ASCO. ASCO is a non-profit organization founded in 1946 for healthcare professionals involved in cancer care. The site PLWC provides information on more than 85 types of cancer, clinical trials, coping with cancer, patient support organizations and even a database for you to find an oncologist who is an ASCO member.

Please note that the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) has changed the name and URL of its patient information website: People Living With Cancer (www.plwc.org) is now Cancer.Net (www.cancer.net). Please update any links going to the Cancer.Net home page to www.cancer.net/patient. While we have done our best to forward any URLs from PLWC, we cannot guarantee that all links will work correctly. Therefore, if your organization has any links to Cancer.Net that go beyond the home page, please update them with the new Cancer.Net URL. Thank you for updating your site’s links to Cancer.Net. For more information, please call 703-519-2927.

KidsHealth
This informative site provides doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence. It has separate areas for kids, teens and parents; each with its own design and age-appropriate content. You can search for information on worms, how to decipher food label information to recipes for making pretzels with your kid!

Eat well, be well
This site is maintained by the Food Standards Agency of United Kingdom. It contains a wealth of information and advice on health and diet. The information available ranges from healthy eating, practical nutrition advice for different ages and stages of life to specific health issues and understanding food labels!  The information is written clearly and easy to understand.