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Cancer Research Campaign - Some information about cancer. A UK Charity primarily concerned with raising money to fund research.

CancerBACUP - Cancer charity. Over 1500 pages of information for patients and doctors. Diagnosis and treatment. Counselling and resources. Site can be purchased as a CDROM.

Imperial Cancer Research Fund - A UK Charity. Cancer news and an excellent range of information leaflets. Kids' section explains cancer with the aid of cartoons.

Prostate Cancer Charity - A UK based prostate cancer charity. Telephone helpline. Networkers. Providing information and support for patients.

Can.survive - Amanda's page on Lymphoma and Hodgkins disease. A personal page with good and supportive information for sufferers.

Everyman - Action Against Male Cancers - Established by the Institute of Cancer Research to raise awareness and fund research. Information about testicular and prostatic cancer.

Ovacome - UK Ovarian Cancer Support Network - UK support group for all those concerned with ovarian cancer. Site contains a FAQ but little online information (Jan 2000).

Cancer Counselling Trust - Cancer counsellors and psychotherapists for cancer patients and their families, based in Islington.

Cancer Net - Cancer information and links on this site for UK cancer patients. Produced by a consultant oncologist along with other medical professionals.

Cancer Resource Centre - Registered charity provides support, information and complementary therapies to people with cancer, based in Greater London.

Macmillan Cancer Relief - UK charity offering help and support to people with cancer. Limited online information but free leaflets and booklets can be ordered.

Cancer Help UK - Free information service produced by the University of Birmingham. Good general information about cancer, prevention and treatments. Detailed information about specific types of cancer.

Tenovus - Information about cancer charity working on research and patient support.

5Eize The day Appeal - Information about fund raising appeal for a bone marrow and haematology (blood cancer) ward called "5E" in Oxford.

Guide to Internet Resources for Cancer - Comprehensive guide maintained by Simon Cotterill, University of Newcastle on Tyne. For patients and professionals.

Lymphoma Forum and Lymphoma Association - Password restricted forum for professionals, and free access area providing information for the public. Independent body.

National Cancer Research Network - Information about group created to provide a world-class health service infrastructure to support cancer research in England.

Cancer Information & Support Services - Charity dedicated to providing free support and information to cancer patients and their carers, families and friends.

Bone Ewing's Sarcoma - Ewing's Sarcoma - a child cancer. Request for help from those with expertise in diagnosis and treatment.

Northwest Cancer Research Fund - An independent charity to provide funds for fundamental cancer research in the North West of England.

Foundation For Children With Leukaemia - Charity. Sponsors research, equipment and training for childhood leukaemias in the UK.

Richard Dimbleby Cancer Fund - Funds research into a cure for cancer, and an information and support service for cancer patients living in South-East London and West Kent. Contact details.

Sargent Cancer Care for Children - Charity caring for children with cancer providing support for families at home and in hospital from the day of diagnosis. News, events, publications and donation page.

Musgrove Leukaemic Group Somerset - Fund raising charity supporting treatment and research for leukaemia and lymphoma in the county. Provides details of the research and clinical units, meetings, collections and events.

Fight for Life - Raises funds to build and maintain a dedicated children's radiotherapy unit at the Middlesex Hospital, London. Information about events, activities and contact details.

Carols Smile - Formed in 2002 in memory of Carol Harbord who died of Hodgkins Disease, a form of cancer. Information about their activities to raise funds for research and patient support.

Info Lymphoma - Janet Nightingale's site with information and useful links for people with adult Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma.

Samantha Dickson Research Trust - Information about charity set up to help find a cure for childhood brain tumours. Offers support and advice from for anyone diagnosed with a brain tumour.

CancerWEB - Collection of cancer resources for patients and professionals. Access to the National Cancer Institute's database of up to date information (PDQ).

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Tell them I said something. -- Pancho Villa, dying words Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it. -- E. W. Howe Cancer "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) "Have you ever fed your pocket and starved your soul?" (Ivana Santilli, Too Deep) "The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything has been getting smaller and smaller and less and less important, that the romantic spirit has dried up, that there is n Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. -- François de La Rouchefoucauld, Maxims, 1665 Cancer We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset In the late 1600s the finest instruments originated from three rural families whose workshops were side by side in the Italian village of Cremona. First were the Amatis, and outside their shop hung Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. -- Oliver Herford Cancer "Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills." (Minna Antrim) Cancer "I have learned that to be with those I like is enough." (Walt Whitman) Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last Marriage is bliss. Ignorance is bliss. Ergo... -- Anonymous Cancer In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. -- Douglas Adams "The greatest pleasure in life is doing what others say you cannot do." (Anonymous) Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David Chambless The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. -- T. S. Eliot Cancer If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile. -- Lynda Barry And life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be. -- Grandma Moses blah "If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." (Thomas Alva Edison) Cancer Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. -- H. Jackson Brown This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable. -- Fred Astaire Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up, does rejoice. I guess I just miss my friend. Love is only the game that is not called on account of darkness. -- M. Hirschfield Spinster: A bachelor's wife. Cancer I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf For the majority of People, smoking has a beneficial effect. -- Dr. Ian G. Macdonald, Los Angeles surgeon, quoted in Newsweek , Nov.18th 1963. Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours. - Richard Bach Cancer Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) "God is Man's stupidest idea." (Marcel Duchamp, French Dadaist) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. -- Groucho Marx >From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx Cancer Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry "I think all great innovations are built on rejections." (Louis-Ferdinand Céline) The church is the great lost and found department. -- Robert Short Cancer The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Paul Ehrlich We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. -- Buck Henry I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle. -- Molly Ivins "Small minds discuss people, average minds discuss events, great minds discuss ideas." (Anonymous) Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller Cancer "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." (George Carlin) A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- Anonymous No man in the world has more courage than the man who can stop after eating one peanut. -- Channing Pollack Cancer
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