The African American Breast Cancer Alliance, Inc. (AABCA) of Minnesota, was founded in October 1990 by Black women who had experienced breast cancer. The AABCA is dedicated to providing hope, awareness, education, emotional and social support to breast cancer survivors, their family members and the community. Information and action is particularly important because Black women tend to have more

AACR is the authoritative source of information about advances in the causes, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of cancer. By accelerating the growth and spread of new knowledge about cancer, AACR is on the front lines of the quest for prevention and cure.

AACR is the oldest and largest scientific organization in the world focused on every aspect of high-quality, innovative cancer research. Its reputation for scientific breadth and excellence attract the premier researchers in the field.

The American Cancer Society (ACS) is a nationwide, community-based voluntary health organization. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, the ACS has state divisions and more than 3,400 local offices.

The Annie Appleseed Project, a 501 (c)3 non profit corporation, provides information, education, advocacy and awareness for people with cancer, family and friends interested in, complementary, alternative medicine (CAM), natural therapies from the patient perspective.

This multi-lingual site offers several languages to help Asian Pacific Islander women understand the importance of having mammograms and pap smears at regular intervals. There is information about how to make appointments and prepare for the procedures. Clinicians will find special materials they can use to personally recommend mammography and pap smears to their patients. Early detection can make a difference in treatment and survival.

ACOR is an Internet-based public charity dedicated to improve the quality of care provided to cancer patients and the quality of life of patients, survivors and their caregivers. ACOR leverages its wide technological and biomedical resource expertise to be a reliable source of knowledge, support and community in a relentless worldwide campaign to empower those suffering from the disease.

ACCC is the leading national multidisciplinary organization that defines quality care for patients with cancer and influences change to continually improve cancer care.

ACCC is the national multidisciplinary organization that focuses on enhancing, promoting, and protecting the entire continuum of quality cancer care for our patients and our communities.

Bay Area Breast Cancer Network (BABCN) is a non-profit, organization committed to finding the cause, prevention and cure for breast cancer through Education, Support and Advocacy. Formed by a small group of breast cancer survivors in 1990, BABCN was created to increase awareness about breast health and breast cancer, provide information and support services to women, and positively effect public p

Breast Cancer Action carries the voices of people affected by breast cancer to inspire and compel the changes necessary to end the breast cancer epidemic.

Breast Cancer Action Nova Scotia is a survivor driven group that voices the unique concerns of people living with breast cancer. We are united in our desire to change the legacy of breast cancer through networking, support, education and research.

Breast Cancer Care and Research Fund was founded in 1998 by Dr. John Link, an oncologist dedicated to serving woman with breast cancer.

BHAWD envisions a time in which women of all abilities have equal access to respectful treatment and high quality women’s health care

BHAWD envisions a time when all barriers to women’s health care - whether physical, mechanical, statutory, attitudinal or other, are removed so that all women are equally considered and served by the medical community.

breastcancer.org is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing the most reliable, complete, and up-to-date information about breast cancer.

Our mission is to help women and their loved ones make sense of the complex medical and personal information about breast cancer, so they can make the best decisions for their lives.

The Breastlink Medical Group was founded by Dr John Link in 1995. Today the company operates across four breast cancer centers in Southern California. Ranked by Self Magazine as one of America's 10 best breast cancer centers, the company has grown to employ 60 people who are all committed to the vision and delivery of Optimal Care for women.

C-Change is comprised of the nation's key cancer leaders from government, business, and nonprofit sectors. These cancer leaders share the vision of a future where cancer is prevented, detected early, and cured or is managed successfully as a chronic illness.

The mission of C-Change is to leverage the combined expertise and resources of its Members to eliminate cancer as a (major) public health

The website offers both English and French language resources.

The Canadian Cancer Society is a national, community-based organization of volunteers, whose mission is the eradication of cancer and the enhancement of the quality of life of people living with cancer. Web site is in both English and French.

The Canadian Prostate Cancer Network speaks for thousands of men and their families who, each year, are diagnosed with prostate cancer. With our 120 affiliated support groups across Canada we:

* help individuals and their families understand and cope with prostate cancer by providing up to date medical information and individual support

*lobby for increased funding for research, treatment facilities and programs

CancerCare is a national nonprofit organization that provides free, professional support services for anyone affected by cancer.

The Cancer Council Victoria, then named the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria, was set up as a charitable body in 1936 by an Act of the Victorian Parliament. In 2002, the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria changed its name to The Cancer Council Victoria.

The Cancer Council funds and conducts research, delivers statewide support and prevention programs and advocates on important cancer issues.

Cancer resources in languages other than English including: Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, and others.

The National Cancer Institute's (NCI's) Cancer Information Service (CIS) is a national information and education network. The CIS is a free public service of the NCI, the Nation's primary agency for cancer research.

The Cancer Links website tries to provide resources and valuable information for both patients and professionals on how to improve and promote high-quality cancer care and ways to improve quality of life and reduce toxicities of therapy through more effective and efficient means of promoting a cooperative and mutual association between the medical profession, cancer patients, and their families.

CancerPlan.org is an interactive web site that provides Comprehensive Cancer Control (CCC) resources, tools, state practices, and links to assist state, tribes, territories and community cancer planners to develop, implement, and evaluate comprehensive cancer plans.

This website offers links to Cancer Resources in Languages other than English

This is the official web site of the Cancer Society of Finland.

CancerCare is a national nonprofit organization that provides free, professional support services to anyone affected by cancer: people with cancer, caregivers, children, loved ones, and the bereaved. CancerCare programs – including counseling, education, financial assistance and practical help – are provided by trained oncology social workers and are completely free of charge. Founded in 1944,

“Our mission is to improve cancer care through the dissemination of up-to-date and accurate educational programming and information for healthcare professionals, cancer patients and their family members”

The mission of CancerSource is to be the most comprehensive, accurate, and personalized source of cancer information and services available. We serve the needs of our readers, both consumers and healthcare professionals, by providing free, always available access because we believe that knowing helps.

Cancervive is a LA based 501c3 non profit organization dedicated to providing support, public education, and advocacy to those who have experienced cancer. Its mission is to assist survivors to reclaim their lives after cancer.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services created the Office of Minority Health in 1985 as a result of the Report of the Secretary's Task Force on Black and Minority Health, which revealed large and persistent gaps in health status among Americans of different racial and ethnic groups. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) created its own Office of Minority Health (OMH) in 1988 in response to the same report.

The Institut Curie continues, according to the will of Marie Curie, a mission of treatment and research against cancer. The continuity of research to the care constitutes the originality of the Curie model to support the excellence, the innovation and the quality of patient management. (English and French)

The official Site of Denmark's Cancer Society

The establishment of a national cancer research center in Germany was initiated by Heidelberg surgeon Professor Karl Heinrich Bauer. The Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum (DKFZ, German Cancer Research Center) was set up in 1964 by resolution of the State government of Baden-Wuerttemberg as a foundation under public law. (German and English)

The overarching mission of the Harvard School of Public Health is to advance the public's health through learning, discovery, and communication.

Your guide to reliable health information, developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

This site has translations of documents on managing the symptoms and side effects of cancer available in Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, French, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Somali, Spanish, Ukranian, Urdu, and Vietnamese

The Intercultural Cancer Council (ICC) promotes policies, programs, partnerships, and research to eliminate the unequal burden of cancer among racial and ethnic minorities and medically underserved populations in the United States and its associated territories.

The "National Cancer Center of Japan" was formerly established on February 1, 1962. The objective of the Center is to form the ideal cancer center in Tokyo that serves as the nucleus for national cancer measures. It has thus served a central role in the cancer measures of Japan. The National Cancer Center continues in the battle to "overcome cancer", the long cherished wish of humanity, not only

The Journal of the National Cancer Institute (print ISSN: 0027-8874, online ISSN: 1460-2105) publishes peer-reviewed original research from around the world and is internationally acclaimed as the source for the most up-to-date news and information from the rapidly changing fields of cancer research and treatment. For the past several years, the JNCI has been ranked as the most-cited original-research cancer journal by the Institute of Scientific Information in its annual Journal Citation Reports.

Kids Konnected's mission is to provide friendship, understanding, education, and support for the children who have a parent with cancer, or have lost a parent to cancer

Founded in 1997 by cancer survivor and champion cyclist Lance Armstrong, the LAF is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization located in Austin, Texas.

A non-profit organization dedicated to empowering all women affected by
breast cancer to live as long as possible with the best quality of life.

The Lung Cancer Alliance is the only national non-profit organization dedicated solely to patient support and advocacy for people living with lung cancer and those at risk for the disease.

The mission of The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center is to eliminate cancer in Texas, the nation, and the world through outstanding programs that integrate patient care, research and prevention, and through education for undergraduate and graduate students, trainees, professionals, employees and the public.

A large cancer centre serving the whole of the Czech Republic. The site includes both a Czech language and an English language version and contains information about the centre, contacts, services, research and education.

The Minnesota Cancer Alliance is a coalition of health care organizations, community-based groups and volunteers that evolved from collaborative efforts to create Cancer Plan Minnesota. Founded in 2005, the Alliance was formed to support and implement the plan.

NAWHO is a national non-profit health organization with a mission to achieve health equity for Asian women and families.

The National Breast Cancer Coalition is the nation's largest breast cancer advocacy group with hundreds of member organizations and tens of thousands of individual members.

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) is a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), one of eight agencies that compose the Public Health Service (PHS) in the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).

From 1997 to 2005, the National Cancer Policy Board existed at the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council to address broad policy issues that affect cancer in the United States and to recommend ways to advance the Nation's effort against cancer. The board, consisting of 20 members drawn from outside the federal government, included health care consumers, providers, and researchers in a variety of disciplines in the sciences and humanities.

The mission of the Office of Cancer Survivorship (OCS) is to enhance the quality and length of survival of all persons diagnosed with cancer and to minimize or stabilize adverse effects experienced during cancer survivorship. The Office of Cancer Survivorship conducts and supports research that both examines and addresses the long- and short-term physical, psychological, social, and economic effec

OncoLink was founded in 1994 by University of Pennsylvania cancer specialists with a mission to help cancer patients, families, health care professionals and the general public get accurate cancer-related information at no charge.