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Useful websites for more information about orthodox cancer medicine include:

www.cancerbacup.org.uk: The best UK information site on all aspects of cancer with good links to other sites

www.cancer.gov: The largest cancer website in the world, belonging to the US National Cancer Institute in Washington

www.oncolink.org: The excellent site of the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center with good links to other US sites

www.oncology.com: The website of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, where treatment protocols and drugs are well explained

www.cancerhelp.org.uk: Smaller, manageable site from the University of Birmingham

www.cancerresearchuk.org.uk: Britain’s cancer research charities site

www.macmillan.org.uk: Site of the Macmillan Fund, with useful contacts especially for support groups and palliative care

www.cancereurope.com: The European School of Oncology site, with good links to other cancer sites in the EU.

Look in Chapter 4 for more cancer-treatment information, and in Part 2 of this Directory for useful websites and contact details of those offering helpful cancer information.

If you would like to speak to a doctor in more detail about your cancer, you may be able to get help from the pathology department of the hospital that diagnosed your tissue samples. Pathology departments have doctors called ‘pathologists’, whose job it is to understand the course that specific diseases tend to follow. Because pathologists do not see many patients, they usually have quite a lot of patience. You may find that one of these doctors is willing to come to the phone, if you ring the pathology department, and tell you in detail about the nature of your tumour and its likely behaviour in the future. Of course, it is possible that all this information will simply raise more questions than it answers, so it is perfectly appropriate that, having gathered your information, you go back to your consultant and/or GP to ask your next round of questions.

If you would like a broader integrated medicine perspective, this may also be the time to seek the advice and help of an integrated medicine doctor (see the Resources Directory).