Cancer information

Start here for basic information about specific conditions and types of treatments:

• Cancer information from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center includes cancer & treatment, prevention & screening, and clinical trials
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering’s Cancer Information Gateway describes and links to authoritative Web resources
• National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Information Service provides information, online chat with an information specialist, or talk to an information professional at 1-800-4-CANCER
• National Library of Medicine’s Medline Plus has health topics, drug information, encyclopedia, news, and other information
• NOAH, New York Online Access to Health links to quality consumer health information in English and Spanish
• Public Health Library of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene provides access to published health-related information for health care service organizations and the general public.