Cancer of the Testicles

UK sources of information and / or support

 The leaflets section of Patient UK

Includes a leaflet called Testicular Cancer.

 Institute of Cancer Research

Not a self help group but their web site provides links to many cancer support and information resources for patients and carers. Includes Everyman - action against male cancer - the Institute of Cancer Research's campaign to raise awareness of testicular and prostate cancer.

 Orchid Cancer Appeal

Aims to raise funds to increase public awareness and improve and simplify treatment of men's cancers (testicular and prostate cancers) and to help people understand these cancers and their treatment.

 Testicular cancer

Information from the North London Cancer Network.

 Cancerbackup

Cancerbackup aims to help people live with cancer by providing information and emotional support for patients, their families and health professionals.

 CancerIndex

An extremely comprehensive and well-resourced site with a wealth of information on cancers and links to a wide range of other sources of information.

 CancerHelp UK

CancerHelp UK is a free information service about cancer and cancer care for people with cancer and their families. It is brought to you by Cancer Research UK. They believe that information about cancer should be freely available to all and written in a way that people can easily understand.

 Royal Marsden

A leading UK cancer centre, recognised worldwide for the quality of its services. Site includes comprehensive, authoritative patient information on testicular cancer. See their Patient Information section.

 Laparoscopic retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for testicular cancer

A patient guide to complement the NICE national guideline for health professionals called Laparoscopic retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for testicular cancer.

  DIPEx

DIPEx (Database of Individual Patient Experiences) is an Oxford based registered charity. It is a database of audio, video and transcript of interviews with patients experiencing a particular illness or health problem. Includes a module on testicular cancer.

See also the Patient UK cancer page for many other links.

Further sources / more detailed information

Some non-UK sites

The following list popular non-UK health information sites with content aimed at the general public. They are mainly from the US. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included but these large sites are comprehensive.

• Non-UK disease / illness sites
• Non-UK self-help / support group sites

More detailed medical information

The following list online sources of more detailed medical information, mainly from the UK. These sites are mainly aimed at health professionals, but are of interest to all. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included, but information about most medical topics can usually be found.

• PatientPlus - hundreds of medical reference articles provided by Patient UK.
• Evidence Based Medicine - such as from Clinical Evidence, The Cochrane Library, etc.
• Database of UK Clinical Guidelines - from NICE, SIGN, Clinical Knowledge Summaries, etc.
• Medline - abstracts available from thousands of journals.
• Sites listing free online medical textbooks and journals.
• Sites listing free medical images - pictures, atlases, anatomy, skin diseases, etc.