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Cancer of the Bone
UK sources of information and / or support
Patient UK
Has an information leaflet called Primary Bone Cancer
Bone Cancer Research Trust
Formed in 2005 as an alliance of a number of established local charities and groups of family and friends of primary bonecCancer patients throughout Britain and Ireland. Provides information, support and, in the longer term, counselling services for those with primary bone cancer (such as osteosarcoma and Ewing's Sarcoma) and their families.
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. See their Patient Information section.
ROHBTS (Royal Orthopaedic Bone Tumour Service)
A self-help group for parents of children with bone cancer
Macmillan Cancer Support
Cancerbackup aims to help people live with cancer by providing information and emotional support for patients, their families and health professional.
Medicine Guide for Bone Cancers
Medicine Guides provide reliable information about medicines (drugs), conditions and the different treatment options available. They have been developed in the UK as part of the Medicines Information Project. Includes detailed information about medicines used to treat cancer of the bone.
Medicine Guide for Bone Metastases
Medicine Guides provide reliable information about medicines (drugs), conditions and the different treatment options available. They have been developed in the UK as part of the Medicines Information Project. Includes detailed information about medicines used to treat bone metastases.
Adult Bone Cancer Survivors
Adult Bone Cancer Survivors - you are invited to share your story on this site.
Mark Cross Bone Cancer Fund
Memorial fundraising site for research specifically into bone cancer.
Bone cancer (sarcoma)
Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.
Further sources / more detailed information
Some non-UK sites
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- 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.
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