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American Cancer Society Breast Cancer page. Most comprehensive website with multiple resources including diagnosis, treatment options survivorship issues, and how can you help, also downloadable files…. 

Clinical decision aids and clinical calculators, in this Nature magazine article, different clinical calculators are listed with relevant discussion. Please remember that such calculators should be looked upon as research tools, they are continuously being modified and changed, such tools should never replace your provider clinical judgement. Access may be restricted to providers only….  For breast cancer risk assessment tool please click here …..

NCI Breast Cancer Page…. 

Genetics: Common questions about BRCA1 and BRCA2 please click here….   US national library of medicine page on Breast Cancer (very technical)…..

NCI clinical trials…. 

Treatment and supportive care, Offer treatment support channels, medical insurance issues…..

Nutrition: Excellent resource with nutrition advice, calorie counters, physical activity advice, videos, and many other features….. 

Advance Directive…… 

Medical Search Engines

Journal of Clinical Oncology
Official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology.

Journal of the National Cancer Institute
The Journal of the National Cancer Institute publishes manuscripts that describe new findings of particular significance in any area relating to cancer, as well as associated news items, reviews, and opinion pieces.

The Lancet
An international journal of medical science and practice.

Medline
MEDLINE® (Medical Literature, Analysis, and Retrieval System Online) is the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) premier bibliographic database that contains over 11 million references to journal articles in life sciences with a concentration on biomedicine.

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, established in 1884, is the world’s oldest and largest private institution devoted to prevention, patient care, research, and education in cancer.

National Library of Medicine
The National Library of Medicine (NLM), on the campus of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world’s largest medical library. The Library collects materials in all areas of biomedicine and health care, as well as works on biomedical aspects of technology, the humanities, and the physical, life, and social sciences.

The New England Journal of Medicine
The on-line version of the New England Journal of Medicine.

PubMed
PubMed is a project developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), located at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It has been developed in conjunction with publishers of biomedical literature as a search tool for accessing literature citations and linking to full-text journals at Web sites of participating publishers.

NCI Publications

Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer: What You Need To Know   

Understanding Breast Changes. Tips on screening   

Other Related

When cancer returns  

Taking part in cancer treatment research  

Chemotherapy and side effects

Chemotherapy and you, discuss most common side effects and management tips.   

Chemotherapy Side Effects Series. Multiple side effects discussion, each is downloadable individually.

Understanding Chemotherapy  

Radiation therapy

Radiation Therapy and You.  

Radiation therapy side effects series. 

Nutrition

Eating Hints:Before, during, and after cancer treatment.  

Pain Control

Pain Control: Support for People with Cancer.  

Survivorship

Facing Forward: Life After Cancer Treatment.  

Facing Forward: Making a Difference in Cancer. 

For Family and Caregivers

Caring for the Caregiver.  

When Someone You Love Is Being Treated for Cancer.  

When Someone You Love Has Advanced Cancer.   

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