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Smokefree.gov EmergingMed
www.smokefree.gov www.emergingmed.com
Phone: 800.784.8669 (English and Spanish)/ Phone: 855.220.7777 (English and Spanish)
TTY for deaf and hard-of-hearing callers: Voice mail is available after-hours.
800.332.8615
EmergingMed assists cancer patients and
The Smokefree.gov home page offers the their families in finding new treatment options.
“Online Guide to Quitting,” which provides Patients are pre-screened for clinical trials by
information and suggestions to help you stop completing a questionnaire about their specific
smoking. Online instant messaging and tele- diagnosis and treatment history. Clinical trial
phone support are available. The website also specialists guide each caller through the match-
provides information and tips for specific age ing process over the phone or follow up with
groups and cultural groups, as well as contact visitors who begin the process online. They
information for support services in your state. review each patient’s questionnaire, provide a
general clinical trial education and offer to send
Visiting Nurse Associations trial summaries and contact information for
of America (VNAA) trial matches. The clinical trial specialists will
www.vnaa.org stay in touch with each caller to ensure that the
Email: vnaa@vnaa.org patient is able to contact the trial site, assist the
Phone: 202.384.1420 patient with any barriers to clinical trial access
(when possible) as well as keep the patient
Visiting Nurse Associations of America is the up to date on new clinical trials for which they
national association of nonprofit, community- might be eligible.
based visiting nurse agencies. Visiting nurses
provide professional health care to individuals in National Comprehensive
their homes as they recover from illness or injury. Cancer Network (NCCN)
This site provides fact sheets on choosing a home www.nccn.org
health care agency and types of home health care Phone: 215.690.0300
services. Also included is a search tool for finding
a visiting nurse agency in your area. The National Comprehensive Cancer Network
is a nonprofit alliance of 21 of the world’s leading
CLINICAL TRIALS cancer centers that are dedicated to improving
the quality and effectiveness of care provided to
ClinicalTrials.gov— cancer patients. They offer the NCCN Clinical
U.S. National Institutes of Health Practice Guidelines in Oncology, which is avail-
www.clinicaltrials.gov able online. This resource provides compre-
hensive and frequently updated clinical practice
ClinicalTrials.gov is a service of the National guidelines that cover 97 percent of all cancer
Institutes of Health. This website provides patients. These guidelines provide treatment
patients, family members and other members recommendations and address cancer detec-
of the public easy and free access to informa- tion, prevention and risk reduction. The guide-
tion on clinical studies for a wide range of lines also include workup and cancer diagnosis,
diseases and conditions. They also provide treatment and supportive care.
information about what clinical trials are, how
they work and how to find one for your condi-
tion. Contact information for each clinical trial
is provided, as well as a glossary of terms and
links to related websites.
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