Carol McWilliams's List: Support

This information resource, presented by their Integrative Medicine Service, provides evidence-based information about herbs, botanicals, supplements, and more.

Article by Atul Gawande in the New Yorker magazine. Explores many aspects of supportive care compared to aggressive treatment of end stage diseases.

The Advanced Breast Cancer Community is a comprehensive information source and online community solely dedicated to the needs of advanced (metastatic) breast cancer patients, caregivers, family and friends, and health care providers.

Living Beyond Breast Cancer (LBBC) is dedicated to assisting you, whether you are newly diagnosed, in treatment, recently completed treatment, are years beyond or are living with advanced (metastatic) disease.

Very active group of patients and survivors on this moderated list.

NCCN.com is the consumer website of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network® (NCCN®), a not-for-profit alliance of 21 of the world's leading cancer centers. The goal of this website is to educate patients with cancer to engage in more informed conversations with health care providers so they can live longer and better quality lives.

The IBC Research Foundation is dedicated to researching the cause of Inflammatory Breast Cancer, IBC, an advanced and accelerated form of breast cancer usually not detected by mammograms or ultrasounds. Inflammatory breast cancer requires immediate aggressive treatment with chemotherapy prior to surgery and is treated differently than more common types of breast cancer.

From Cancer.Net the patient site from the American Society of Clinical Oncology

A coalition of organizations helping cancer patients manage their financial challenges, search by diagnosis and/or zip code.

Help with the cost of medications: patient assistance programs, free/low cost clinics, state sponsored programs, Medicare, Medicaid.

"Mission: to provide effective mediation and arbitration services to patients to remove obstacles to healthcare including medical debt crisis, insurance access issues and employment issues for patients with chronic, debilitating and life-threatening illnesses. "

New ways to raise awareness, increase outreach and facilitate collaboration in an effort to improve the cancer experience.

For Working Women with Cancer: career coaching,cancer diary, wigs, support, and legal issues .Cancer and Careers is committed to changing the face of cancer in the workplace by providing a comprehensive website, free publications, and a series of support groups and educational seminars for employees with cancer.

What do you say to a person who has received a diagnosis of cancer? What can you do to help?\nA must read for those newly diagnosed and those who love them, written by Susan Frisius.\n\nOften well meaning folks say and do things that have the opposite effect of what they want on the person with cancer. Somehow being hit by a bus seems to always come up. I have heard that in the midwest it's a truck, though, not a bus.

Halos of Hope supports the physicians, oncologists, surgeons, therapists, technicians, and radiation specialists who treat and heal cancer patients in underserved populations and/or areas.

To recruit one million healthy women of every age and ethnicity, including breast cancer survivors and women at high-risk for the disease, to partner with breast cancer researchers and directly participate in the research that will eradicate breast cancer once and for all.\n\nTo challenge the scientific community to expand its current focus to include breast cancer prevention research conducted on healthy women."

Cancer survivorship research encompasses the physical, psychosocial, and economic sequelae of cancer diagnosis and its treatment among both pediatric and adult survivors of cancer. It also includes within its domain, issues related to health care delivery, access, and follow up care, as they relate to survivors.

Metastatic breast cancer information and support for patients, family members and friends.

"This website offers women with metastatic breast cancer and their families a place to learn about brain metastases from a patient perspective. We are a source for the latest information about this form of the disease, as well as for personal stories from women who’ve been there about what it’s like to be diagnosed and treated for “brain mets.”"