Resources for Cancer Survivors
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Improving Emotional Health, Quality of Life, and Healthy Behaviors
- Self-Management Education: Learn More. Feel Better.
- Cancer self-management education (SME) programs
- Improving Health and Quality of Life After Cancer (Web Feature)
- What is Health-Related Quality of Life?
- Distress Screening and Psychosocial Care for Cancer Survivors
- My Personal Prescription for Surviving Cancer by George Hilliard (Blog)
- Being a Cancer Survivor Reminds Me Life is Precious by Traci Ramirez (Blog)
- Managing Stress
- Smoking and Cancer Fact Sheet (PDF)
- Chemotherapy’s Most Serious Side Effect by Dr. Lisa Richardson (Blog)
- A Cancer Survivors’ Prescription for Finding Information (PDF)
- Life After Treatment Guide (PDF)- A guide to help cancer survivors and caregivers
- Life After Treatment Guide – A Guide for American Indians & Alaska Natives (PDF)- This guide contains information that cancer survivors and their families can use to discuss life after treatment with their health care providers
- Survivorship Care Plans
Preventing Infections in Cancer Patients, Survivors, and Caregivers
- Preventing Infections in Cancer Patients (Web Feature)
- Preventing Infections in Cancer Patients: Information for Patients and Caregivers
- Preventing Infections During Cancer Treatment: Program Materials for Patients and Caregivers: (Fact sheets, posters, and podcasts on topics such as sepsis, neutropenia or low white blood cell count, and risk for infection)
- Health Tip Sheets on Preventing Infections:
- Videos on Preventing Infections: (Topics include: preventing infections during chemotherapy, caring for a wound, understanding low white blood cell count, and more!)
- Risk Assessment Test: (For Cancer Patients or Caregivers – Take a quick test to learn your or your loved one’s risk of developing a low white blood cell count and infections during chemotherapy)
- Flu Information for Patients, Survivors, Caregivers
- Flu: A Guide For Parents of Children or Adolescents with Chronic Health Conditions (PDF)
- Cancer, the Flu, and You (Web Feature)
- Cancer Patients and Fungal Infections
- Does Breast or Ovarian Cancer Run in Your Family? (Web Feature)
- Quick Facts about Family Health History and Genetic Testing for Breast Cancer and Ovarian Cancer
- Cancer and Family History: Using Genomics for Cancer Prevention: CDC Public Health Grand Rounds
- Breast and Ovarian Cancer and Family History Risk Categories: (Provides information about average, moderate and strong family histories of breast and ovarian cancer).
- Genetic Counseling and Evaluation for BRCA1/2 Testing:
- Know:BRCA Tool: (The Know:BRCA online tool is a resource developed to help women understand their risks for having a BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutation.)
- Genetic Testing for Lynch Syndrome:
- Fact Sheet: Family History is Important for Health
Additional Support Programs and Services
The National Cancer Institute has a Support Services Locator where you can search a list of more than 100 organizations nationwide that provide emotional, practical, and financial support services for people with cancer and their families.
- Page last reviewed: May 30, 2017
- Page last updated: January 12, 2017
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