Jackson Cancer Research Interest Group

Links

Funding Resources American Association for Cancer Research http://www.aacr.org/ American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/ Grantsnet http://www.grantsnet.org/

Research Tools and Databases National Center for Biotechnology Information http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ Center for Biological Sequence Analysis http://www.cbs.dtu.dk/ SMART (Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool) http://smart.embl-heidelberg.de/ State of Mississippi Cancer Registry http://www.cancer.msdh.state.ms.us/ UMC Cancer Registry

Patient Education American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org/ Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia http://cml.tlls.org/ The Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi (preventing youth tobacco use) http://healthy-miss.org/

Clinical Trials The UMC participates in clinical trials sponsored by the following associations: The Selenium and Vitamin E Cancer Prevention Trial (SELECT) is investigating whether these nutrients can prevent prostate cancer (UMMC is participating in SELECT) http://www.crab.org/select/ Southwest Oncology Group (UMC is a participating member of the SWOG) http://www.swog.org Gynecologic Oncology Group (UMC is a participating member of the GOG) http://www.gog.org National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project (UMC is a participating member of the NSABP) www.nsabp.pitt.edu Pediatric Oncology Group (UMC is a participating member of the POG) http://www.pog.ufl.edu For information on other clinical trials, try the following sites : National Institutes of Health Clinical Trials http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct/gui/c/r

Cancer Centers The University of Mississippi Medical Center Cancer Institute MD Anderson Cancer Center http://www.mdanderson.org/ National Cancer Institute - Frederick Cancer Research & Development Center http://web.ncifcrf.gov/ OncoLink (University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center) http://cancer.med.upenn.edu/ St. Jude Children's Research Hospital http://www.stjude.org/

Specific Cancer Types
	Brain Cancer American Brain Tumor Association http://www.abta.org/ The Brain Tumor Society http://www.tbts.org/ National Brain Tumor Foundation http://www.braintumor.org/
	Breast Cancer National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations http://www.nabco.org Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation http://www.komen.org/
	Cervical Cancer National Cervical Cancer Coalition http://www.nccc-online.org/
	Colorectal Cancer Colon Cancer Alliance http://www.ccalliance.org/
	Leukemia The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society http://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org/
	Lymphoma Lymphoma Information Network http://www.lymphomainfo.net/lymphoma.html
	Lung Cancer Lung Cancer Online (edited by Karen Parles, a lung cancer survivor) http://www.lungcanceronline.org
	Melanoma Melanoma ... the ABC's (operated by Schering Corporation; has good info about self-examinations and melanoma recognition, etc.) http://www.melanoma.com/
	Multiple Myeloma Multiple Myelmoa Research Foundation http://206.204.218.38/default.asp
	Oral Cancer & Cancers of the Head and Neck Oral Cancer Foundation http://www.oralcancer.org
	Ovarian Cancer National Ovarian Cancer Association http://www.slip.net/~mcdavis/ovarian.html
	Prostate Cancer Prostate Cancer Foundation http://www.prostatecancerfoundation.org
	Pancreatic Cancer The Lustgarten Foundation for Pancreatic Cancer Research http://www.lustgarten.org/ Pancreatica.org http://www.pancreatica.org/
	Renal Cancer The Kidney Cancer Association http://www.nkca.org/