Patient Advocate Foundation
1-800-532-5274 (Mon.-Thurs., 8am-8pm; Fri., 8:30am-7pm EST)
www.patientadvocate.org
Provides education and legal counseling to cancer patients (relative to a diagnosis) concerning managed care, discrimination, insurance and financial issues.
Hereditary Cancer Center
Creighton University School of Medicine
2500 California Plaza
Omaha, NE 68178
1-800-648-8133 (Mon.-Fri., 8am-5pm CST)
http://medschool.creighton.edu/centers/hcc/
Studies family-linked cancer. Counseling, information on clinical trials, cancer and hereditary factors.
Cancer Information Service
Sponsored by National Cancer Institute.
1-800-422-6237
www.cancer.gov
Provides information about cancer and cancer-related resources to patients, the public and health professionals. Offers one-on-one smoking cessation counseling and literature. Free publications.
Cancer Research Institute
1-800-992-2623 (Mon.-Fri., 9am-5pm EST)
www.cancerresearch.org
Provides general cancer resource information. Supports leading-edge research aimed at developing immunologic methods of preventing, treating and curing cancer.
Cancer Information and Counseling Line
1-800-525-3777
(Mon.-Fri., 8:30am-5pm MST)
Provides current medical information and counseling for cancer issues.
Cancer Hope Network
1-877-467-3638 (Mon.-Fri., 9am-5:30pm EST)
www.cancerhopenetwork.org
One-on-one support offered to cancer patients and their families undergoing cancer treatment from trained volunteers who have survived cancer themselves.
BLOCH Cancer Hotline
1-800-433-0464
Networks persons with cancer and home volunteers with same type of cancer. Free books about cancer.