Interesting Links...
Featured Link:
Our sister chapters in ONS...
Houston Chapter Oncology Nursing Society
Bay Area Oncology Nursing Society
Other Interesting Sites...
Tufts University's Health Sciences Library has a health resource for Asian Americans whose first language is not English. Dubbed SPIRAL for "Selected Patient Information Resources in Asian Languages," the Website http://spiral.tufts.edu, has detailed health information in seven Asian languages, specifically Chinese, Hmong, Khmer, Korean, Laotian, Thai and Vietnamese. It is a unique multi-language health information site because it is for both physicians and patients. It includes information on cancer and many other illness / health topics.
Cancer Survival Toolbox The toolbox was developed by NCCS, ONS, AOSW, and Genentech to assist patients in developing practical skills to deal with cancer diagnosis and treatment
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation "This site contains over 100 pages of general breast health information, along with specific areas that address the needs of special audiences, including breast cancer survivors and their friends and families, the media, and the medical and scientific communities." It does include Race for the Cure information and grant applications that can be downloaded.
MD Anderson's Cancer Pain site and MD Anderson's Home Page: Wealth of information and references
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: Has a great page of on-line cancer resources and up-to-date research findings.
American Society of Clinical Oncology : Includes meeting and membership information, an on-line journal club, research abstracts, CME activities, and currently full-text access to The Journal of Clinical Oncology (for a trial period only, though).
CancerTrials - NCI's web site (lots of info on trials, goes far beyond a simple searchable database): http://cancertrials.nci.nih.gov/
AHCPR site (tons of resources for funding, research findings, quality assurance, evidenced based practice, clinical practice guidelines, etc.): http://www.ahcpr.gov/
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
PubMed - free Medline access with ability to order articles: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/
Visible Human Project - lots of places to go from here to view images of this amazing endeavor: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_human.html
Revised American Nurses Association Code of Ethics
Many thanks to Beth Ann Igoe, ARNP, for the time and effort she volunteered to search for and review these on-line resources for us!
