| The Health
Library at Presbyterian Hospital Matthews |
704/384-6393
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| Highly personalized and understanding assistance in researching and
interpreting medical information on just about any medical topic from an
impressive collection of print and electronic sources. When you call,
a staff member will help you define your question and make an appointment
for you to visit the library. When you arrive at the library, staff will
explain the answers which have been researched for you. Free for
the public; there may be a fee for searches for professionals. For
details and directions, visit www.supportworks.org/darlene.htm. |
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| SupportWorks |
704/331-9500
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| SupportWorks works closely with The Health Library to help callers
locate support groups for the medical disorders and to research useful
medical information. Call Monday through Thursday mornings for personal
service or see their entire database at www.supportworks.org.
By the way, you're already on the SupportWorks database now! |
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| American Institute for Cancer Research |
800/843-8114
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| A place to find answers to questions about diet, nutrition, and cancer.
They can help you with issues relating to nutrition in general as well
as those relating to cancer, cancer prevention, and cancer treatment.
For personal assistance from a registered dietitian or nutritionist, call
AICR's phone above or e-mail your question at http://www.aicr.org/information/survivor/dietitian.lasso.
You can also find a wide variety of brochures at their web site www.aicr.org. |
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| Cancer Information Service |
800/422-6237
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| This 800 number brings you to the National Cancer Institute where you
can obtain 1) medical/scientific literature by mail, 2) help in interpreting
that literature, and 3) answers to your questions on treatments, clinical
trials, pain control, risk and recurrence reduction, smoking cessation,
and other cancer-related subjects. |
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| Since the Internet has become so popular, there are now an almost infinite
number of sites providing information about cancer. These sites change
content and quality from time to time making it difficult to list the "best"
sites. If you would like assistance in searching the Internet at
a beginning or advanced level, feel free to the Health Library or SupportWorks
(see numbers above). There are two sites which over the past 8 years
have remained authoritative and useful. They are the site from the
National
Cancer Institute that provides information about different types of
cancer and the site from the American
Cancer Society that provides a good overall introduction to cancer. |
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