General Cancer Websites                                 View/Print the List in PDF

At the Jewish General Hospital

Please take advantage of the resources and services we provide locally.

Gynecologic Oncology Health Information Service jgh.ca/gynonc

Patient and Family Resource Centre jgh.ca/pfrc

Hope & Cope / Wellness Centre hopeandcope.ca

Segal Cancer Centre jgh.ca/segalcancercentre

 
Cancer Websites

BC Cancer Agency (BCCA)
The BC Cancer Agency’s mandate covers the spectrum of cancer care from prevention and screening, to diagnosis, treatment, and through to rehabilitation.
www.bccancer.bc.ca > Patient/Public info

Canadian Cancer Society
The Canadian Cancer Society is the largest charitable funder of cancer research in Canada.
www.cancer.ca

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO)
Cancer Care Ontario is an umbrella organization that steers and coordinates Ontario's cancer services and prevention efforts.
www.cancercare.on.ca

Cancer Care Nova Scotia (CCNS)
Cancer Care Nova Scotia is a program of the Nova Scotia Department of Health.
www.cancercare.ns.ca

Cancer.net NEW
The website provides oncologist-approved cancer information from the American Society of Clinical Oncology. A highlight of this website for patient education is its Multimedia section. It contains free audio podcasts and videos on cancer, treatment, coping and many other topics. It also provides a gallery of full-color illustration of common sites where cancer occurs, searchable by cancer type. 
www.cancer.net

CancerQuest NEW
CancerQuest is a cancer education and outreach program at Emory University. The Patient Information section of its website provides reliable, easy-to-understand and authoritative information about cancer biology and treatment. The Education Center section contains several types of 'formal' and informal education tools (seminars, lectures, lesson plans) as well as videos about medical tests and interviews with cancer survivors and researchers.
www.cancerquest.org

Cancervive
Cancervive is a Los Angeles based 501c3 non profit organization. The Organization, founded in 1985 by childhood cancer survivor Susan Nessim-Keeney, is dedicated to providing support, public education and advocacy to those who have experienced this disease. Its section Survivor Education: caregivers provides online resources for caregivers and abstract of selected journal articles recently published on the topic of Caregiving.
www.cancervive.org

Medline Plus
MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations.
www.medlineplus.gov

National Cancer Institute
The US Government's main agency for cancer research and training.
www.cancer.gov

National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN)
The National Comprehensive Cancer Network is a not-for-profit alliance of 21 of the world's leading cancer centers that is dedicated to improving the quality and effectiveness of care provided to patients with cancer.
www.nccn.com

Oncolink
OncoLink was founded in 1994 by Penn cancer specialists with a mission to help cancer patients, families, health care professionals and the general public get accurate cancer-related information at no charge.
Cancer Types > Gynecologic Cancers 

For Advanced Readers

PubMed Health NEW
PubMed Health is a service provided by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the NLM. It specializes in reviews of clinical effectiveness research, with easy-to-read summaries for consumers as well as full technical reports. Clinical effectiveness research finds answers to the question “What works?” in medical and health care.
http://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth > Contents > For consumers

PubMed
PubMed is a service of the NLM that includes over 16 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
Search for articles : www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez

UpToDate
UpToDate has produced articles for patients and their family members who seek current, reliable information on a variety of medical conditions and topics.
www.patients.uptodate.com : Hover on “view patient-level health articles by category” underneath the search box > Cancer


Clinical Trials

NCIC Clinical Trials Group (NCIC CTG)
The information contained in this website is intended for use by NCIC Clinical Trials Group members at participating centres. If you are a cancer patient, your doctor can explain how this information applies to you, or you can call the Cancer Information Service of the Canadian Cancer Society at 1-888-939-3333.
Clinical trials group: www.ctg.queensu.ca  > Clinical Trials