UK sources of information and / or support

 Patient UK

Has an information leaflet on 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.

 Macmillan Cancer Support

Support, help and information for people with 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.

 Treating Testicular Cancer

Information from the North London Cancer Network.

 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.

  Testicular Cancer

Healthtalkonline, is an award-winning charity website, which lets you share in other people's experiences of health and illness. The information is based on qualitative research into patient experiences led by experts at the University of Oxford.

 Testicular Cancer

Health Challenge Wales provides a wide range of information including one in this area.

 Medicine Guide for Testicular cancers

Provides detailed information about the drugs available to treat this condition. Medicine Guides provide reliable information about medicines, conditions and the different treatment options available. They have been developed in the UK as part of the Medicines Information Project.

 Testicular Cancer

Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.

 Testicular Cancer

Information from BUPA.

 Testicular Awareness

Information from BUPA.

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, 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.