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resources // about cancer

This section will help you find general information about cancer, its causes and how cancer can be prevented. You can also read about how various screening programmes can detect cancer in its very early stages. Tests and investigations play an important role in both detecting a cancer as well as deciding how it is best treated and we have included a section where you can find information on that. Finally, we often talk about how cancer can run “in the family” and we have a section with links to information about that under the heading ‘genetics’. If you are looking for information relating to a specific type of cancer, you should go to the section called “specific cancers”.

Subsections >> click here to view general resources

>> causes of cancer
>> diagnostic investigations
>> genetics
>> prevention
>> referral guidelines
>> screening
>> what is cancer

General resources

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>> Learning about cancer
Source: American Society of Clinical Oncology (http://www.oncology.com/plwc/MainConstructor/1,1744,_21-008-00_12-001006,00.html)
Details: Provides general information on cancer including statistics, prevention, causes, risk factors, detection, screening, tests, staging and treatments
Origin: USA
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>> Learn about cancer
Source: Cancer Research UK (http://info.cancerresearchuk.org/cancerandresearch/learnaboutcancer/)
Details: Information on what cancer is, causes, screening, diagnosis and traetment.
Origin: UK
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>> About cancer
Source: Cancerbacup (http://www.cancerbackup.org.uk/Aboutcancer)
Details: Information on what cancer is, causes, genetics, screening, tests & investigations and pre-cancerous conditions.
Origin: UK
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>> Cancer Q&As
Source: Cancerbacup (http://www.cancerbacup.org.uk/QAs)
Details: Answers to over 1000 important questions about cancer.
Origin: UK
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>> About Cancer
Source: CancerHelp UK (http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/help/default.asp?page=85)
Details: Information about what cancer is, including cells and cancer, how it grows, causes, treatment, tests and statistics.
Origin: UK
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