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AMC Cancer Info and Counseling Line
1600 Pierce Street
Denver, CO 80214
Phone: 1-800-525-3777 (Mon.-Fri, 8:30am-5pm MST)
E-mail: cicl@amc.org
Website: www.amc.org/htmlpage.html
    "Established in 1981 by AMC Cancer Research Center, the CICL is a national toll-free telephone information line designed to help people with cancer and their families."
     The AMC website provides sufficient information about the hotline and its users. The hotline is open for anyone with cancer-related questions. The website also provides information about popular cancers, such as prostate and breast. (PT)

American Cancer Society
Phone: 1-800-227-2345
(Mon.-Thurs., 9am-8pm; Fri, 9am-4pm)
Website: www.cancer.org
    American Cancer Society is filled with cancer-related issues, articles, statistics and programs. The American Cancer Society is updated daily with new cancer-related articles. It has a full listing of the nearest local offices in your neighborhood. It also has plenty of information about the most common types of cancer as well as links to other major cancer websites. -PT
    Bi-lingual - English and Spanish. Info on issues related to cancer.

Anderson Network
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
1515 Holcombe Blvd
Houston, TX 77030
Phone: 1-800-392-1611 or 1-713-792-6161
Website: www.mdanderson.org/
    "When the new Care Centers opened in the Spring of 1996, M. D. Anderson enhanced its outpatient services by combining its previously separate, specialty-based clinics into multidisciplinary care centers. These Care Centers focus on a particular group of cancers or a particular disease site. In a single location, a pathologist, surgeon, radiation oncologist and medical oncologist, for example, collaborate to determine the best possible treatment plan for an individual patient."
    The Anderson Cancer Care website is very interesting, providing information covering every type of cancer. The website gives you a better understanding about cancer and it also gives you care center locations. (PT)
    Matches cancer patients with similar diagnoses for support.

Cancer Care, Inc.
Cancer Care, Inc National Office
275 7th Ave New York, NY 10001
Phone: 1-212-302-2400 or 1-800-813-HOPE
E-Mail: info@cancercare.org
Website: www.cancercare.org
    "Since 1944, Cancer Care has been dedicated to providing emotional support, information, and practical help to people with cancer and their loved ones. As the oldest and largest national nonprofit agency devoted to offering professional services, Cancer Care has helped over a million people nationwide through its toll-free Counseling Line and teleconference programs, its office-based services, and via the Internet. All services are provided free of charge and are available to people of all ages, with all types of cancer, at any stage of the disease. Cancer Care's reach, including its cancer awareness initiatives, also extends to family members, caregivers, and professionals, providing vital information and assistance."
    Cancer Care has a wide variety of informative links to specific cancers and several programs. It also receives cancer information from the CNN news desk. -PT
    Free counseling for cancer patients and their families. Financial assistance, info and referrals, community and professional education. On-going telephone support groups.

Cancer Info Service (bi-lingual)
Phone: 1-800-4-CANCER or 1-800-332-8615 (TTY) (Mon.-Fri, 8am-4:30pm MST)          Website: cis.nci.nih.gov/index.html
    Trained professionals answer questions about causes, symptoms and treatment. Info and referrals.
     Offers links to other cancer resource information.

Cancer Research Foundation of America (CRFA)
1600 Duke Street, Suite 110
Alexander, VA 22314
Phone: 1-703-836-4412 or 1-800-227-2732
Fax: 1-703-836-4413
E-mail: webmaster@crfa.org
Website: www.preventcancer.org
"A national, non-profit health foundation with a single mission: the prevention and early detection of cancer through scientific research and education. CRFA focuses its energies and resources on those cancers that can be prevented through lifestyle changes or detection and treatment in their early stages. This includes lung, breast, prostate, colorectal, cervical, skin and testicular."
The website is designed to give information about how to prevent cancer. Offers free and very helpful information. –MJG

Dana Farber Cancer Institute Family Studies Cancer Risk Line
44 Binney St.
Boston, MA 02115
Phone: 1-617-632-3000 or 1-800-828-6622
Email: Dana-FarberContactUs@dfci.harvard.edu
Website: www.dfci.harvard.edu/
     Info on familial cancers.
     Offers detailed information on many types of cancers.

National Cancer Institute
NCI Public Inquiries Office
Suite 3036A
6116 Executive Boulevard, MSC8322
Bethesda, MD 20892-8322
Phone: 1–800–4–CANCER (1–800–422–6237)
Fax: 1–800–624–2511 or 1-301–402–5874
E-mail: cancermail@cips.nci.nih.g
Website: www.nci.nih.gov
"Brings together resources to stimulate and support scientific discovery and its application to achieve a future when all cancers are uncommon and easily treated. Coordinates the National Cancer Program, which conducts and supports research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs with respect to the cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of cancer, rehabilitation from cancer, and the continuing care of cancer patients and the families of cancer patients".
This site has a wide range of helpful information about cancer. Offers information in Spanish and has free lines to call. A large, interesting site, very easy to navigate. –MJG

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