Thursday, September 09, 2010

Cancer Links

  • IN Health Connect – Connecting to Indiana Health Services.  One stop shopping for health services anywhere in Indiana.
  • Indiana Healthy Weight Initiative – a statewide initiative aimed at reducing overweight and obesity rates and related chronic diseases in Indiana. Through a partnership among foundations, health care organizations, non-profit organizations, and state and local public health agencies, the Indiana Healthy Weight Initiative Task Force is developing a state plan to promote healthy eating and active living through policies, programs, and environmental changes. The Web site is for anyone with a stake in obesity prevention in Indiana. Here you will find current state and national data, legislation, evidence based strategies, reports, and links to other Web sites. These resources can help generate new ideas for obesity prevention efforts within your organization or community.
  • American Cancer Society: Extensive cancer resource for patients and their families, and professionals.
  • American Cancer Society, Community Resource Database: Find local programs and support services that provide assistance to people coping with cancer; or call 1-800-ACS-2345.
  • The American Cancer Society Indiana Mammography Guide is designed as a complete and unbiased source of information on mammography facilities in Indiana. The information contained in this guide is provided voluntarily by each facility through a survey (in the summer of 2006) and prices may be subject to change. It compares services, price, and other information to help women choose the mammography facility best suited for them.
  • American Bladder Cancer Society: A nonprofit organization that focuses on bladder cancer advocacy and survivor support. The Web site offers survivors and the people that care for them an active online support community. The site offers blogging, weekly support chats, and a public forum.
  • Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights: National lobbying organization dedicated to nonsmokers’ rights, taking on the tobacco industry at all levels of government, protecting nonsmokers from exposure to secondhand smoke, and preventing tobacco addiction among youth.  Information about secondhand smoke and how to protect yourself, as well as local smokefree air developments.
  • Cancer Care: National nonprofit organization that provides free, professional support services for anyone affected by cancer
  • Cancer Control Planet: This website provides access to data and resources that can help planners, program staff, and researchers to design, implement, and evaluate evidence-based cancer control programs.
  • Cancer Services of Northeast Indiana provides resources, education, and support to people with cancer and their families in northeast Indiana.  They serve people who live in Allen, Adams, DeKalb, Huntington, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, Steuben, Wabash, Wells, and Whitley counties
  • The Cancer Support Community: (formerly the Wellness Community) International Non-profit that provides support, education, and hope to people with cancer and their loved ones. Program based on Patient Active Concept.
  • CDC Wonder: An easy-to-use internet system that makes the information resources of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) available to public health professionals and the public at large.
  • Indiana 2-1-1: Statewide information and referral system to connect Hoosiers to human services; or call 2-1-1.
  • The Indiana Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Agency is responsible for developing programs to prevent and reduce the usage of tobacco and tobacco products in Indiana by utilizing best practices or tobacco control programs developed by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  For local resources throughout Indiana, visit the ITPC Community Resource Center.
  • INShape Indiana: Log On Lighten Up. The state of Indiana is stepping up its efforts to encourage Hoosiers to adopt a healthier lifestyle. Focused on primary prevention efforts through nutrition, physical activity, and tobacco cessation.
  • Just a Bit Gets You Fit: This worksite based health and fitness program provides employers the necessary structure to promote health and fitness among their employees. Please take a few moments to register yourself or your company today. The registration code to log on is GETFIT2010, and best of all, this program is being offered to you absolutely FREE.
  • Kids Konnected provides friendship, understanding, education, and support for the children who have a parent with cancer, or have lost a parent to cancer
  • Mesothelioma and Asbestos Awareness Center: This organization is committed to increasing awareness of the causes of mesothelioma cancer through our public outreach efforts and the distribution of informational materials. The MAA Center website provides up-to-date and well researched content focused on mesothelioma cancer, and, in addition, also features a database of information about other forms of cancer, including lung cancer, breast cancer, and prostate cancer, in an effort to best serve Web site visitors.
  • The Mesothelioma and Asbestos Cancer Resource Center is an online portal designed to help spread awareness of the deadly cancer mesothelioma. Headquartered in Rochester, New York, this site contains hundreds of informative articles and videos pertaining to this horrible disease and its causes. You will also find up-to-date news articles that span the globe to bring relevant information to those seeking knowledge pertaining to this disease.
  • National Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids: One of the nation’s largest non-governmental initiatives, the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids is fighting to protect children from tobacco and create a healthier environment by deglamorizing tobacco use, changing public policy, partnerships, education, and advocacy.
  • National Cancer Institute: A comprehensive site dedicated to cancer research.
  • National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program: On this site you will find information on CDC supported activities for the Comprehensive Cancer Control.
  • National Institutes of Health Clinical Trials provides regularly updated information about federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers.
  • Nurse2Nurse designed for Hoosier nurses, nursing students, and other health professionals about smoking cessation, tobacco policy/advocacy, and educational materials for nursing professionals to assist patients to quit smoking.
  • Partnership for Prevention’s Call for ACTTION includes links to the Call for ACTTION, press materials, fact sheets, and other helpful information.
  • Patient Advocate Foundation provides direct patient services to assist with co-pays, insurance, disability and legal issues as well as links to education, information and clinical trials.
  • Pleural Mesothelioma Center – Pleural mesothelioma is by far the most prevalent form of mesothelioma. According to the American Cancer Society, three-quarters of all mesothelioma cases are pleural. Pleuralmesothelioma.com offers the most comprehensive and current information on asbestos, exposure, and mesothelioma.
  • The Resource Centre/The Community Hospital Cancer Research Foundation offers counseling, professionally-led support and networking groups, a resource library with items to checkout and internet access, and exercise and mind/body classes. All programs are free and open to the public. (Munster, IN)
  • RiverBend Cancer Services provides support and education for cancer patients and their families in North Central Indiana.  Services include financial assistance for prescriptions and supplies, durable medical equipment and nutritional supplements.  In addition, we offer a free wig salon and specialized counseling for cancer patients and their families.  We serve patients in and around St. Joseph County.
  • Smokefree Indiana is a volunteer-based, advocacy oriented coalition of individuals and organizations working to promote tobacco-free, healthy lifestyles.
  • Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER): The Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program of the National Cancer Institute is an authoritative source of information on cancer incidence and survival in the United States. The SEER Program currently collects and publishes cancer incidence and survival data from 14 population-based cancer registries and three supplemental registries covering approximately 26 percent of the US population.