Cancer
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Articles, Fact Sheets, Pamphlets, Journals & Videos
PARL subscribes to the Gale Health and Wellness Resource Center database. This service is available free to anyone with a Library card. Not only can you access thousands of articles, pamphlets and fact sheets on various health topics but also informative video files. Below are links to a sampling of the many resources from the database available on the subject of Cancer.
Are Some Breast Cancers Different than Others?
Top Ten Tips for Preventing Skin Cancer
Read an Overview
Visit the Health and Wellness Resource Center to search for information on the topic of your choice. If you do not have a free library card to access this online database drop in to your nearest branch library or register online.
Suggested Books
These books are just a small sample of books on the topic of cancer from our collection. Please search the online catalogue for a more complete listing.
- After cancer treatment (DVD): then what?
- Knockout (EPUB eBook): Interviews with Doctors Who Are Curing Cancer And How to Prevent Getting It in the First Place
- Preventing cancer (DVD): reducing environmental risk
- Living well beyond breast cancer: a survivor's guide for when treatment ends and the rest of your life begins
- If I knew then what I know now: the clarity that comes with cancer and age
- The cancer treatment revolution: how smart drugs and other new therapies are renewing our hope and changing the face of medicine
- After breast cancer: a common-sense guide to life after treatment
- Understanding cancer: a patient's guide to diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment
- Healing gourmet. Eat to fight cancer
- Hereditary cancers & genetic testing (DVD): what it means to you and your family
- Mayo Clinic guide to women's cancers
- Canadian Guide to Prostate Cancer
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Local Information, Organizations & Featured Links
Cancer Patient Navigator
St. Martha's Regional Hospital, 4th Floor
Cancer and Supportive Care Unit
25 Bay Street
Antigonish, NS, B2G 2G5
Phone: (902) 867-4707 toll free 1-866-524-1234
Fax: (902) 863-1382
Email: cporter@gasha.nshealth.ca
Service: Helps individuals and their families to access various cancer care supports, answers questions or concerns and makes referrals to health professionals. No fee.
Cancer Patient Navigators
- Joanne Cumminger
District 6 - Pictou County Health
Covers Pictou County
Phone: (902) 752-7600 ext. 4922 - Heather Brander
District 7 - Guysborough Antigonish Strait Health Authority
Covers Guysborough, Antigonish, Richmond and Inverness Counties
Phone: (902) 867-4707
Cancer Resource Room
St. Martha's Regional Hospital Room 4324
25 Bay Street
Antigonish, NS, B2G 2V7
Phone: (902) 863-2830 ext. 4715
Fax: (902) 863-1382
Services: Provides wigs, hats, scarves, turbans, books, pamphlets, videos as well as support and counseling for individuals with cancer and their families. No fee.
Hours: 8:00 - 4:00 Monday to Friday
Nova Scotia Breast Screening Program
Halifax Shopping Centre, Unit 603 L
7001 Mumford Road
Halifax, NS, B3L 2H8
Phone: (902) 473-3960
Fax: (902) 473-3959
Toll free: 1-800-565-0548
Service: A mobile clinic that assists in the early detection of breast cancer through the use of mammography.
Website: http://www.breastscreening.ns.ca/
Cancer Care Nova Scotia
1276 South Park Street
5th floor, Bethune Building
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 2Y9
Phone: 902-473-4645
Toll free: 1-866-599-2267
Fax: 902-473-4982
Email: info@ccns.nshealth.ca
Website: http://www.cancercare.ns.ca/
Breast Cancer Action Nova Scotia
Mill Cove, 967 Bedford Highway,
Suite 205
Bedford, Nova scotia
Telephone: 902-465-2685
Fax: 902-484-6436
Email: bcans@bca.ns.ca
Website: http://bca.ns.ca/
Canadian Cancer Society Nova Scotia Division
5826 South Street, Suite 1
Halifax, Nova Scotia
B3H 1S6
Tel: (902) 423-6183 or toll-free: 1 800 639-0222
Fax: (902) 429-6563
E-mail: ccs.ns@ns.cancer.ca
Website: http://www.cancer.ca/ccs/internet/frontdoor/0,,3490___langId-en,00.html
Guysborough Antigonish Strait Health Authority (GASHA) Breast Health Powerpoint Presentation.
Health Connections Resource Centre
HEALTH CONNECTIONS in the People's Place Library.
283 Main Street,
Antigonish, NS B2G 2C3
Tel: (902) 863-7369
Fax: (902) 863-9318
Email: smithlj@gasha.nshealth.ca
Provides free health information and support.
Pleural Mesothelioma Center
A one-stop resource for pleural mesothelioma patients and their families providing current, reliable data on all topics relating to pleural mesothelioma cancer.
Website: http://www.pleuralmesothelioma.com/
Mayo Clinic Cancer Center
Website: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/cancer/CA99999
Mayo Clinic Breast Cancer Center
Website:
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/breast-cancer/BR99999
Mayo Clinic Prostate Cancer Center
Website: http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/prostate-cancer/PT99999