Breast Cancer Resource Websites

This is just a small list (in no particular order) of breast cancer related websites that may be of help. If you run, or know of, a site that you think should be in the list, you can ask us to add it. This is not a free-for-all link page - each link is visited and assessed before being added.

Breast Cancer Care (UK)

Breast Cancer Care is a national organisation offering information and support to those affected by breast cancer. Services are free, confidential and accessible, and include a national helpline, information - booklets, factsheets and a website, volunteer services, aftercare services, and regional services.

www.breastcancercare.org.uk

Marie Curie Cancer Care (UK)

Founded in 1948, Marie Curie Cancer Care is now the UK's largest and most comprehensive cancer care charity. All of it's vital services are provided free of charge. Marie Curie Nurses provide over 1.1 million hours a year of practical nursing care at home for over 50% of people seriously ill at home with cancer. The charity has a network of Marie Curie Nurses around the UK, over 4,000 employees, and its expenditure for 1999/00 is likely to exceed £68 million.

www.mariecurie.org.uk

Macmillan Cancer Relief (UK)

Provides specialist care for people with cancer at every stage of their illness. Can sometimes provide financial help through patient grants which can be applied for on your behalf usually by a nurse, social worker or doctor.

www.macmillan.org.uk/

Bristol Cancer Help Centre (UK)

Provides residential holistic courses which include relaxation, visualisation, meditation, art therapy, healing, dietary advice and vitamin supplements.

www.bristolcancerhelp.org

CancerBACUP (UK)

Provides information on all aspects of cancer and its treatment, and on the practical and emotional problems of living with the illness. Experienced cancer nurses will answer questions, and send booklets. Has regional centres around the country. Their website contains over 2000 pages of information.

www.cancerbacup.org.uk

European Institute of Women’s health/Women’s Cancer Information Project (EU)

EU funded site providing information about breast cancer, the breast and breast health.

www.eurohealth.ie/cancom/brestqq.htm

Breast Care Campaign (UK)

The Breast Care Campaign has been established for almost nine years and remains the only organisation dedicated to raising awareness of benign breast disorders. Since 1991, the Breast Care Campaign has disseminated information to thousands of women and continues to be the first point of referral for health professionals, enabling them to offer the appropriate support and treatment of benign breast problems that women so often need. An important focus for the Breast Care Campaign is to reassure women that detection of a breast problem need not signal the worst, by putting the risk factors into perspective.

www.breastcare.co.uk

Tenovus (UK)

Set up in 1943 by ten businessmen (the 'ten-of-us'), Tenovus has developed into a cancer charity that raises over £3 million each year, money devoted to cancer research, education, patient care and counselling. It's sister charity, Tenovus Cancer Information Centre, is committed to providing support and counselling services for cancer patients and their families through the teams of nurses, counsellors and social workers at the Tenovus Cancer Information Centre and via the Tenovus Freephone Cancer Helpline (08 08 808 10 10).

www.tenovus.org.uk

UK Breast Cancer Coalition (UK)

UK Breast Cancer Coalition is a voluntary network of regional groups, organisations and individuals voted into existence in July 1995 in the House of Commons by breast cancer activists, MPs, organisations and charities concerned with breast cancer.

campaigns.express.co.uk

UK Breast Cancer Awareness (UK)

Marie Nally (a woman with breast cancer) and Nina Pope (a multimedia artist) launched the UK Breast Cancer Awareness web site in October 1995. Following Marie's diagnosis with metastatic breast cancer in 1994, we had used the Internet to search for information on treatment. There were innumerable cancer-related and breast cancer-specific sites but the majority originated in the USA and none related specifically to those affected by breast cancer in the UK. In September 1995, we decided to set up a web site for October Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

www.easynet.co.uk/aware

UK Health Centre (UK)

A guide to the vast amount of medical and health information available on the Internet.

www.healthcentre.org.uk

National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organisations (USA)

The National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO) is the leading non-profit information and education resource on breast cancer and a network of over 400 member organizations nationwide. NABCO provides information to medical professionals and their organizations and to patients and their families, and advocates for beneficial regulatory change and legislation. With public and corporate partners, NABCO has collaborated on educational and medical programs that have reached a national audience, heightening public awareness and connecting women with needed services.

www.nabco.org

National Breast Cancer Coalition (USA)

The National Breast Cancer Coalition is a grassroots advocacy organization dedicated to fighting breast cancer. NBCC was formed in 1991 with one mission: to eradicate breast cancer through action and advocacy. Our website is designed to help you join us in this fight. Here you can find all sorts of information including how to become an advocate for change, our legislative priorities for the 106th Congress, which Members of Congress have been supportive of our agenda and how NBCC-trained advocates have helped change the world of breast cancer research.

www.natlbcc.org

European Organisation for Research on the Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) (EU)

This organisation conducts, develops, co-ordinates and stimulates cancer research in Europe.

www.eortc.be

The United Kingdom Co-ordinating Committee on Cancer Research (UK)

This is jointly funded by the Cancer Research Campaign, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Leukaemia Research Fund and the Medical Research Council to provide a forum for the exchange of views and information between the Funding Bodies and other cancer research organisations.

ukcccr.icnet.uk

National Cancer Institute (USA)

The National Cancer Institute (NCI), a component of the National Institutes of Health, is the Federal Government's principal agency for cancer research. This site communicates the Institute's vision, goals, plans and funding resource requirements.

www.nci.nih.gov

Cancer Research Campaign (UK)

The Cancer Research Campaign was founded in 1923 and each year we build on the fundraising and scientific achievements of the year before. We are getting bigger and better every year. We are committed to beating cancer by understanding its causes, finding ways to prevent it, developing new treatments - then making sure that the best new treatments reach patients in the clinic here in the UK and all over the world.

www.crc.org.uk

Current Controlled Trials (UK)

The site has a database of clinical trials for cancer and other conditions both in the UK and abroad.

www.controlled-trials.com

Action Against Breast Cancer (UK)

ACTION against BREAST CANCER aims to increase survival after breast cancer through research into secondary spread. ABC funds research into secondary spread breast cancer, the major cause of death from this disease. ABC focuses on finding factors that affect survival of women with breast cancer that are alterable. Thus ABC is working directly to improve treatment, care and conditions for women with breast cancer.

www.aabc.org.uk

Association for International Cancer Research (UK)

The Association for International Cancer Research (AICR) is an independent British cancer research charity. The AICR's aim is to support fundamental research into the causes, mechanisms, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of cancer. The emphasis is on scientific, as opposed to clinical research, but no rigid distinction is drawn between the two. The Association is keen to support recently qualified researchers, work in areas that are relatively underfunded or unexplored, pump-priming or preliminary research projects and projects involving international collaboration.

www.aicr.org.uk

The Marie Curie Research Institute (UK)

The Web site of the MCRI with reports and details of current research programmes.

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