Cancer Resources
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Like the entire cancer experience, sometimes it isn't clear what you're dealing with. The picture to the left if just an example. The graphic actually has more of a shape than the one I received in the mail. Now, doesn't that pique your interest? What the heck is cancer-related that you can get it in the mail?
If you didn't guess by now, it's the first in my collection of fake boobs and the only one I didn't know how to insert. Although it wasn't a great boob, it provided me with a lot of opportunities to laugh. It wasn't weighted, so it could never be even with my other breast until, quick thinker that I am, I put a roll of quarters inside the batting of this contraption. You should have seen the look on my face the day I heard change rattling and thought the roll had opened. Turns out I had change in my pocket and everything was still okay. |
What Internet sites should I use, if I decide to go there?
You may think big, but take small steps when collecting information. Many women stop using the internet once the fear it introduces is greater than the need to find answers. I was one of those women. Now that I am considered a survivor, I am less afraid (some fear still exists) to go on the Internet and I have come across sites I would have found useful during the diagnosis and treatment stages of my journey. No one gave me a list, so I am hoping that if I provide you with a series of links, you can go to a link, return to this site, and then go to another link. This should reduce the odds that you will find something you really don't want to see.
Use these links and you don't have to do a search and risk accessing and seeing information that you don't want to see. These are trusted sites, so you know that the information you see is accurate.
Medical Information
Chemo-Specific Sites
Use these links and you don't have to do a search and risk accessing and seeing information that you don't want to see. These are trusted sites, so you know that the information you see is accurate.
Medical Information
- Mediline Plus
- Breastcancer.org: articles, podcasts, breast cancer information
- Canadian Cancer Society: information about all types of cancer, including the ability to download booklets as you need them.
- American Cancer Society
- National Cancer Institute
- Health Canada
- Healthline
- Health on the Net
- Verywell.com
- How to Read a Pathology Report
- Canadian Association for Nurses in Oncology: information that is specific to oncology nurses
- Twitter has so much cancer-related information and motivational words of wisdom. Why not check me out @kerr_debbie and @cancerflight
- Asbestos-related cancer (mesothelioma)
- Rethink Breast Cancer: articles, breast cancer information, including a lot of great information for younger women
Chemo-Specific Sites
Support Groups/Forums/Blogs/Facebook Groups
- Willow: Breast and Hereditary Cancer Support
- CancerConnection.ca: forum for communicating with other cancer patients, survivors and caregivers.
- Best Breast Cancer Blogs of 2017 (Don't forget to check out my blog posts.)
- Facebook Groups (Breast Cancer Straight Talk Support, After Breast Cancer - Support The Girls!, Breast Cancer Slayers & Survivors!, Breast Cancer Survivor). These are closed groups that are meant for women who have or have had breast cancer.
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Other Information
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What other resources are good?
There are a lot of books out there, so if you have read any good ones that helped you with your cancer experience, please let me know. If you haven't read my book, When Cancer Takes Flight, please check it out. Make this site even better by going to my Contact page and telling me which resources you've used and found helpful. I will add them to this site and others will benefit from your experience.
