1599 Clifton Northeast
Atlanta GA 30329-4251
1-800-ACS-2345

The ACS Web site is an excellent resource for people coping with all types of cancer. Your local or state ACS chapter is listed in the White Pages of your local phone book. Local chapters are better at addressing individual needs and requests than the national organization.

6500 Wilshire Boulevard Suite 500
Los Angeles CA 90048
(213) 203-9232

CANCERVIVE supports groups for everyday concerns of cancer survivors. They can put you in touch with a local group, or give you information to help you start your own.

1-800-4CANCER

This is a government agency providing information and referral for all cancer needs. If you dial the 800-number, select "option 3" for an information specialist who will transfer your call to one of NCI's nineteen Regional Offices. NCI also offers a very broad range of cancer information and publications, including their Physician Data Query (PDQ) service. Their online component, "CancerNet," is also a very helpful and immediate service that contains some great brochures and booklets.

275 Seventh Avenue
New York, NY 10001
(212-712-8080)
1-800-813-HOPE (4673) toll-free

A non-profit social service agency providing information from social workers on topics that include medical referrals, seeking second opinions, counseling, support groups, financial assistance information for non-medical expenses, home visits by trained volunteers, and local services referrals, such as housekeeping and health aids. Cancer Care is focused in New York, but provides as much information as they have available to people calling from other areas. Their Web site gives complete information about their service and detailed information about support groups and workshops.

Oncolink provides a wide array of current information from the government (National Cancer Institute), and some periodical literature. Besides a great deal of information on specific types of cancer, there is a helpful section on psychosocial support and methods of coping with cancer.

This British site has great cancer information. It also provides links to resources that provide emotional support, and links to cancer survivor stories and experiences.

P.O. Box 316
Bolinas, CA 94924
415-868-0970

This organization provides a "Cancer Help Program" for people with cancer, family members, and close friends. Commonweal is dedicated to helping people who are searching for physical, mental, emotional and/or spiritual healing in the face of cancer.

800-395-LOOK

Look Good...Feel Better (LGFB) is a free, non-medical public service program that teaches female cancer patients ways to cope with the side effects of treatment. Group or one-on-one sessions teach women how to use cosmetics, wigs, scarves and turbans to disguise the effects of chemotherapy and radiation. The Web site gives a few beauty tips, but call the toll-free number to learn where to find LGFB in your local area.

OncoChat is an online peer-support group for people coping with cancer and their loved ones. You will need to download an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) application to use the service, but once you do this, you'll be all set to chat with other people who share similar experiences and emotions.

A listserve, (or listserve,) is a discussion of a particular topic, which may be mediated by a specific individual. Listservs are conducted entirely through email, although they may be archived in other parts of the Internet. These listservs have a particularly high volume of interaction, which will fill up your email-box. You may want to try them one at a time. Also, when you subscribe you will receive a message that confirms your subscription; it also contains the information that will tell you how to unsubscribe. This is vital, so store it in a good place on your mail server. The names of the lists and their respective subscribing information are listed below.

This listserv can be used for general cancer information.

To subscribe send an email message to LISTSERV@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU

Leave the subject line blank, and in the body of the message type:

subscribe cancer (your first and last names), e.g.
subscribe cancer Wilma Flintstone

A listserv for people coping with chronic pain.

To subscribe send an email message to LISTSERV@WVNVM.WVNET.EDU

Leave the subject line blank, and in the body of the message type:

subscribe pain-l (your first and last names), e.g.
subscribe pain-l Fred Flintstone

Another listserv for people coping with cancer pain in particular.

To subscribe send an email message to LISTSERVE@MED.UCALGARY.CA

Leave the subject line blank, and in the body of the message type:

subscribe oncopain (your first and last names), e.g.
subscribe oncopain Barney Rubble

This is a list of newsgroups, which are discussions that take place on the Internet. You can access these groups by appropriately configuring the "news" component of your Internet browser. Unlike listservs, these are not conducted via email.

sci.med.diseases.cancer

alt.support.cancer

alt.answers

sci.answers