LUNG CANCER LINKS
UNITED
STATES ORGANIZATIONS DEVOTED
TO LUNG CANCER
- Alliance for Lung Cancer
Advocacy, Support, and Education (ALCASE) - the leading lung cancer
advocacy group, considerable information on line, including an excellent
lung cancer manual.
WORLD ORGANIZATIONS AND SITES DEVOTED TO LUNG
CANCER
- IASLC
The Intenrnational Association for the
Study of Lung Cancer, publishers of the respected journal lung cancer,
organizer of many conferences.
- Cuneo Lung Cancer Study
Group (CuLCaSG) - contains presentations from the 1998 world lung cancer
conference.
- European Lung Cancer Working
Party
contains presentations from the September, 1999 conference, recent about
recent developments in chemotherapy, and comparison of the effectiveness of
different chemotherapy drugs.
RESEARCH TOOLS
- Medline Medline is the world
medical database containing over 500,000 articles from medical journals
throughout the last 20 years.
- Web Directory:
OncoLink - Lung Cancer
The excellent cancer database oncolink which contains over
100,000 pages, sources, and materials.
- CancerLit:
Thoracic Cancers (National Cancer Institute) On-line abstracts for
health professionals. Sorted by month and year for Small Cell lung Cancer,
Mesothelioma,
UNITED STATES HOSPITAL WEBPAGES
- Lung Cancer
Information from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Information about different
types of cancers from one of the United States' leading cancer centers
- Roswell Park Cancer Institute
- cancer, breast, ovarian, bone, prostate, lung, lymphoma,
pediatric cancer, skin cancer, colon/rectal, cancer
treatment and diagnosis, research, education.
- GENERAL SITES, BOOKS, ETC.
- Lung Cancer Journal
of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer
- Lung
Tumors: A Multidisciplinary Database - multimedia textbook illustrating
the diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer.
- National Familial Lung
Tumor Registry - describes the NFLTR and provides for on-line
registering of families with lung cancer.
- Lung Cancer
Online - information and resources for patients and families.
- Lung Cancer
Page
-
Lung Cancer
Information Center - contains information for health professionals and
patients on diagnosis, staging and treatment of various forms of lung
cancer.
- Lung Cancer Awareness
Campaign - get the facts on the leading cancer killer from four
national cancer organizations united to promote lung cancer
awareness.
PATHOLOGY, TYPES OF CANCERS
- Lung
Tumors: A Multidisciplinary Database Lung Tumors Database from The Virtual
Hospital, goo material on pathology.
- Pulmonary
Pathology Physician's info: Pathology Images - including some cancer
related.
LINKS TO THE COMPLETE
GUIDE TO LUNG CANCER BOOK
Chapter 1-2 lungcanceroverview how cancer develops,
staging, different types of lung cancer, difference between non-small cell and small cell lung cancer from A Complete
Guide to Lung Cancer)
Chapter 4 nonsmallcelllungcancer.htm Non-Small Cell lung
cancer, treatment categorized by stage, chemotherapy, radiation, prognosis categorized by stage,
Chapter 5
smallcelllungcancer.htm (Small Cell lung cancer, preventing
metastasis, limited and extensive.
Chapter 17
HMO.htm
(HMO problems
and medical insurance issues.
General Information Lung cancer
stages
Lung Cancer Newsletter
Newsletter.htm
a detailed quarterly newsletter devoted to
recent developments in lung cancer treatment and diagnosis, learn about the latest
medical research on treatments for lung cancer, clinical trials, chemotherapy, incidence
of lung cancer. The cost of the
newsletter is $90.00 and excerpts from a sample issue are on the webpage.
SITES OF CANCER AND LUNG
ORGANIZATIONS
SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER
Small Cell Lung Cancer (SCLC) accounts for one quarter of all lung cancers.
SCLC is also known as "oat cell" carcinoma because of the shape of the
cancer cells.
- Patient's
information for Small Cell Lung Cancer (CancerNet) Information about the
disease, staging, and treatment overviews.
- Alliance for Lung Cancer Advocacy,
Support, and Education (USA) a non-profit organization aiming to help
people with lung cancer through advocacy, psychosocial support programs, and
education about the disease and treatment. The site includes sections about
lung cancer, symptom management etc.
- Lung Cancer and
the SCLC1 gene (National Center for Biotechnology Information) an
overview of lung cancer and the SCLC1 gene with links to other gene
databases.
- Small Cell lung cancer, treatment, staging, metastasis, from A Complete guide to Lung Cancer
- PDQ Clinical
Trials List: Small cell lung cancer (CancerNet, USA) Information for
Health Professionals
- Physician's
PDQ statement for Small Cell Lung Cancer (CancerNet) A referenced
overview of the disease, cellular classification, staging, and current
treatment overviews. It is reviewed each month by experts at the NCI.
- Physician's information on
Small Cell Lung Cancer (START, European School of Oncology) Referenced
statement including sections on epidemiology, pathology, diagnosis, staging,
treatment and follow-up produced by an editorial board of top European
oncologists. [Go to Chapters]
- SCCL
- Small-Cell Cancer of the Lung (SCLC1) Physician's info (OMIM, National
Center for Biotechnology Information, USA) alternative name SCCL
-
SCLC1 gene (3p23-p21) (information about a specific gene associated with
lung cancer)
Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for about three quarters of all
lung cancers and includes,
a) Squamous cell, or epidermoid, cancer which arises from cells that line the airways -
b) Adenocarcinoma which arises in the
mucus-producing cells that line the upper airways; and c) Large cell carcinoma.
- Patient's
information for Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (CancerNet) Information about
the disease, staging, and treatment overviews.
CLINICAL TRIALS, NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER
- DPDQ Clinical
Trials List: Non-small cell lung cancer (CancerNet, USA) Information for
Health Professionals
SCREENING AND EARLY DETECTION PROGRAMS
- Physician's
PDQ Statement - Screening for Lung Cancer We know who is at risk
(cigarette smokers) and we know that long-term survival is related to
stage. The more extensive the spread of cancer, the less likely we
will be able to combat it. Common sense would tell you that if we have
capable tools of detecting lung cancer at an early stage, we should do it
and save many lives in the process. Wonder, why we don't. Read
this. In the meantime, if you know people who are or were heavy
smokers, recommend chest x-rays, sputum cytology, and Ct Scan as means of
early detection and cure.
- Lung Check Inc. A commercial
laboratory specializing in early lung cancer detection and prevention. The
site contains excellent information about lung cancer screening and early
detection programs. Lungcheck provides an inexpensive but effective way for
smokers and others at risk to detect lung cancer in its early and treatable
stages.
SMOKING PREVENTION ISSUES
- Cigarette
Advertising and Children - Information sheet (Cancer Society of New
Zealand) . Summary of how children are affected by
cigarette adverising.
-
Early
Age at Smoking Initiation and Tobacco Carcinogen DNA Damage in the Lung
(Wiencke JK, Thurston SW, Kelsey KT, et al. Journal of the National Cancer
Institute, Vol. 91, 614-619, 1999)
- Great American Smoke
Out (American Cancer Society)
- Lung Cancer
and Cigarette Smoking Web Page by Frederic W. Grannis Jr. M.D. -
Thoracic surgeon at leading California hospital discusses f diagnosing and treating lung
cancer.
- Office on Smoking and
Health - Tobacco Information and Prevention Sourcepage (Center for
Disease Control, USA) Extensive cigaretts links.
- Parenting
Smokefree Children (Cancer Society)
METASTASIS ISSUES
Parts of the attached were excerpted from the University of New Castle page, Guide to
Cancer. To go to that informative webpage,University
of New Castle
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