





Links about Cancer in General
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Cancer Listservs
This site provides links to mailing list cancer support groups
and forums for discussing various types of cancers.
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The Cost
Containment Research Institute
The Cost Containment Research Institute has a 32 page booklet
called "Free and Low Cost Prescription Drugs". This free
booklet lists 85 pharmaceutical companies and
phone numbers of 85 drug companies that offer free or discounted
prescriptions to patients referred by their doctors and who meet the criteria
for assistance. There is an index and also contact info for 5 discount
mail-order services.
Links about Hodgkin's Lymphoma
Links about Bone Marrow Transplants
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Local Information Sessions for Becoming a Bone Marrow Donor
Look here for detailed information about upcoming bone marrow donor
registry sessions in Greater Vancouver.
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International Information about Becoming a Bone Marrow Donor
Regardless of where you live, you can learn about the steps
required in registering for the donor list, and you can find
out exactly where to go to register. This is a truly
excellent site, well worth exploring.
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Bone Marrow Transplants: A Book of Basics for Patients
This is a comprehensive guide to everything you ever wanted to
know (or didn't want to know) about autologous and allogenic transplants.
My friend Gayle gave me a hardcopy of this when I first found out
I would be having a transplant.
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Blood & Marrow Transplant Newsletter
Blood & Marrow Transplant Newsletter is a not-for-profit organization
that provides publications and
support services to bone marrow, peripheral blood stem cell, and
cord blood transplant patients and
survivors. All literature is written in lay language, and reviewed for
accuracy by a team of medical
experts from transplant centers throughout the US and Canada.
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GrannyBarb & Art's Bone Marrow Transplant Resources
This is a very comprehensive set of resources about bone marrow transplants,
including links to medical journal articles and much, much more.
This is a wonderful, illustrated book aimed at children undergoing
a transplant but very educational for adults and children alike.