Cancer Advances: News for Patients from the 2008 Breast Cancer Symposium is now available for online viewing, and summarizes research and findings highlighted during the September 5-7 meeting in Washington, D.C. An explanation of how each finding relates to breast cancer care is provided in the section, “What This Means for Patients.”
Cancer.Net Guides to Cancer is a comprehensive collection of oncologist-approved booklets on breast, colorectal, lung, and prostate cancer. Each printed guide contains a cancer-specific overview and anatomical illustrations; information on risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis, staging (with illustrations), treatment, clinical trials, side effects, after-treatment procedures, current research; and questions to ask the doctor.
ASCO Answers are fact sheets that provide basic introductions to 20 types of cancer, and include overviews of the cancer type, an illustration of where the cancer starts, how it is treated, terms to know, and questions to ask the doctor.
Cancer.Net Guides to Cancer and ASCO Answers are free materials adopted from Cancer.Net online-publications, and are now available for ordering.
Additional information on more than 120 types of cancer and cancer-related syndromes can be found at www.cancer.net/cancer
For Oncologists
To assist oncologists and other medical professionals in sharing the information on Cancer.Net with patients, ASCO is pleased to provide the following free materials:
Cancer.Net referral cards
Cancer.Net leaflets
Cancer information prescription pads to highlight specific resources from Cancer.Net
Posters for waiting rooms or resource centers.
Cancer.Net brings the expertise and resources of ASCO—the voice of the world’s cancer physicians—to people living with cancer, and to those who care for and about them. To order patient materials or promotional items from Cancer.Net, please call 888-651-3038, or send an e-mail to contactus@cancer.net.
