This page contains links to other web sites and pages having to do with palliative care, cancer, hospices and other institutions which may be of interest to you.

The inclusion of any of the following should not be construed as a recommendation of the site, organisation, institution or corporation by the Council. The Council attempts to keep this list as up to date as possible but cannot assure that sites remain on the Internet nor is it responsible for the information on any site.

If you find a site that you think would be useful to add please send me an e-mail to: johnsanford@sympatico.ca

The information is divided into the following categories:

• Palliative care
• General
• Home Care
• Medical information for Families and Patients
• General
• AIDS
• ALS
• Alzheimer
• Cancer
• MS
• Medical Information in more depth
• Institutions & Organisations
• For health care professionals
• Publications
• Other lists and ways to search the Internet
• List of French language links

Palliative Care

This group of sites is concerned with palliative care, hospices and bereavement counselling.

• ~General~
• Bruderhof Grief Companion
• Canadian Virtual Hospice
• West Island Palliative Care Residence
• American Academy of Hospice & Palliative Medicine
• Growth House - Palliative care (The place to start -wide variety of topics covered well)
• Edmonton Palliative Car Program (for patients, families & physicians)
• HELP - Helpful Links to Palliative care U.K. (geared to solving problems)
• Institute of Palliative Care/Institut de soins palliatifs (University of Ottawa)
• Hospice Foundation of America (General hospice & bereavement information)
• Hospice Hands Web Site (General hospice information)
• Pain Net, Inc. (Information for patients & MD's on dealing with pain)
• Partners Against Pain (layman's guide to pain control & expert information for MD's)
• ~Home Care~
• Dying Well (From Dr. Ira Byock's book for patients and families facing life-limiting illness.)
• Caregiver Network Inc. (Canadian discussion group for care givers)
• Candlelighters Canada Catalogue-Palliative Care - Videos
• Coping Within the Family
• Eating well when you have cancer
• Home Care On-Line (good "consumer information" section)
• Home Care Guide for Advanced Cancer (Problem solving book for caregivers)
• Family Caregiver Alliance (Useful resource of long term care)
• IPC - Children & Palliative Care
• L' Institut de soins palliatifs - Des resources pediatriques
• James Haller's Kitchen (Cooking for the very ill)
• Non-Chew Cookbook
• VON - Services

Medical Information for Patients and Families

General

• Growth House, Inc., Home Page (wide variety of information)
• Healthfinder (User friendly gateway to consumer health information)
• Healthopedia (health "encyclopaedia")
• Cancer Pain & Palliative Medicine Reference Database

AIDS

• AIDS Education Information System
• The Body: A Multimedia AIDS and HIV Resource
• Canadian HIV Trials Network
• JAMA HIV/AIDS Information Center
• Yahoo! - Health: Diseases and Conditions: AIDS/HIV

ALS Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease) (Yahoo selection)
• ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) - Doctor's Guide to the Internet
• Welcome to the ALS Society of Canada's Homepage

Alzheimer

• ADEAR Center
• Alzheimer Society of Canada - Montreal
• Alzheimer Society of Canada - Canada
• Dementia Web

·      Ethical Elders Care Network

• Montreal Neurological Institute & Hospital

Cancer

• Association of Cancer Online Resources
• Basic Information on Cancer (Cancer Guide includes types & staging information)
• Cancerguide
• CancerBackup (U.K. information & support - treatment, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, surgery and more)
• CancerNet (National Cancer Institute's Web Site)
• ICR Home Page (U.K. - Institute of Cancer Research)
• My Child Has Cancer
• National Cancer Institute - Patients Page
• NCI Kids Home Page (Discusses paediatric cancers)
• Radiotherapy (National Cancer Institute)
• Steve Dunn's Cancer Information Page (pros & cons of doing your own research)
• The Ten Commandments for Cancer Survival (helpful hints from OncoLink)
• Understanding Adjuvant Chemotherapy (Cancer Guide)

Specific Cancers

·       Bladder ~ American Foundation for Urologic Disease

·       Brain ~ American Brain Tumor Association

·       ........ ~ Brain Tumour Society

·       Breast ~ National Breast Cancer Coalition

·       ......... ~ Y-Me

·       Colorectal ~ American Gastroenterological Association

·       Kidney ~ National Kidney Cancer Association

·       Leukemia ~ Leukemia Society of America

·       Liver ~ American Liver Association

·       Lung ~ Canadian Lung Association

·       Lymphoma ~ Lymphoma Research Foundation of America

·       Myeloma ~ Myeloma Canada

·       Ovarian ~ National Ovarian Cancer Coalition

·       Pituitary ~ Pituitary Network Association

·       Prostate ~ Prostate Cancer

·       Skin ~ American Academy of Dermatology

·       Testicular ~ American Urological Association

·       Thyroid ~ American Thyroid Association

MS Multiple Sclerosis

• Medline guide to Multiple Sclerosis

 

Medical information in more depth

This section has sites for thosewho want to do more research or obtain more detailed information.

• Cancer Resource Center (Mayo Clinic O@SIS)
• American College of Physicians Home Care Guide for Advanced Cancer
• CancerNet (National Cancer Institute's web site)
• Hardin Meta Directory for Oncology
• Institute of Cancer Research (University of London U.K.)
• Medicine On Line
• Medscape (registration required - free - for some inquiries)
• MedWorld: MedBot: Super Search
• OncoLink (University of Pennsylvania Cancer Centre)
• Talaria: Cancer Pain Management Site

 

Institutions and Organisations

These groups list a few of the organisations and associations that have information available on the Internet.

• ~Montreal~ See also the Resources page on this site
• Association québécoise de soins palliatifs - AQSP
• Jewish General Hospital
• McGill University Faculty of Medicine
• Montreal Children's Hospital
• Montreal Neurological Institute & Hospital
• Les CLSC au Québec
• ~Canada~
• Edmonton Palliative Care Program
• Canadian Palliative Care Association
• Canadian Health Network
• Canadian Medical Association Online
• Health Canada
• Institute of Palliative Care/Institut de soins palliatifs (University of Ottawa)
• Medical Research Council of Canada
• Canadian Cancer Society
• Ottawa General Hospital
• University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine
• Victorian Order of Nurses - VON
• ~International~
• American Cancer Society
• American Medical Association
• Association of Cancer Online Resources
• Institute of Cancer Research (University of London U.K.)
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre
• National Cancer Institute (CancerNet)
• Royal Marsden
• World Health Organisation

 

For Health Care Professionals

This section is directed to health care professionals looking for Internet access to information on conferences, meetings and specific palliative care information. (Registration may be required in some cases.)

• ALS/MND Grand Rounds
• Alzheimer's Disease - Doctor's Guide to the Internet
• Clinical Practice Guidelines - Cancer Pain
• Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
• Physicians Guide to the Internet
• Pain Research at Oxford
• TALARIA: Cancer Pain Management
• ~Conferences~
• Canadian Palliative Care Association - Upcoming Events
• Ottawa Palliative Care Institute - Upcoming Events
• Medical Conferences & Meetings - Doctor's Guide to the Internet

Publications

This section provides access to journal extracts and articles on palliative care and will be of most interestto professionals in the field and those researching published material.

• British Medical Journal (U.K.)
• Cancer Pain Release (WHO)
• European Journal of Palliative Care
• International Association for the Study of Pain
• JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association
• Lancet (U.K.)
• Mayo Clinic IVI Publishing Inc.
• Merck Medical Manual
• NEJM - New England Journal of Medicine
• WebMedLit - access to articles in major journals

 

Searchers and other lists of Internet Sites

Here are some other ways to initiate searches for sites on cancer and medicine:

• Shaare Zedek Cancer Pain and Palliative Medicine Reference Database
• Alta Vista Search
• Health on the Net

Here are some other sites which have extensive lists of Internet sites:

• Cancer Links (exhaustive list of Internet sites on Cancer)
• Information for Cancer Patients and their Relatives (U.K.)
• Palliative Care Resources