Following are links to the main pages of the counties that are covered by the Tri-Counties Regional Cancer Registry. These are gateways to the respective county government including health service:
San Luis Obispo County - http://www.co.slo.ca.us
Santa Barbara County - http://www.co.santa-barbara.ca.us/
Ventura County - http://www.ventura.org/vencnty.htm
American Cancer Society - http://www.cancer.org
The American Cancer Society's education, service, and rehabilitation programs help cancer patients and their families cope with the burden of cancer. In 1996, almost one million cancer patients were helped through the programs of the American Cancer Society.
American Cancer Society California Facts and Figures 2006: http://www.cancer.org/docroot/COM/content/div_CA/COM_12x_Annual_Report_2006.asp?sitearea=COM
American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer - http://www.facs.org/
The Committee on Approvals of the Commission on Cancer (CoC) establishes the standards for the approval of cancer programs and is responsible for the review and approval of programs according to those standards.
American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) http://www.cancerstaging.org/
The AJCC is dedicated to the ideal that all cases of patients with cancer should be staged. The AJCC, through the TNM (Tumor, Nodes, Metastasis) staging system, is committed to classifying tumors by their anatomic site and histology. This system of categorizing offers a method of predicting disease progression that facilitates the management of cancer care.
CA-A Journal for Clinicians — http://caonline.amcancersoc.org/
This is a peer-reviewed journal published for the American Cancer Society as a professional education vehicle, providing primary care physicians with up-to-date information on (1) all aspects of cancer diagnosis, treatment, and prevention; and (2) the Society's related programs, guidelines, statements, and meetings.
California Cancer Registrars Association (CCRA) - http://www.ccraregistrars.org/
CCRA is a professional organization of cancer registrars whose mission is to provide quality cancer data to clinicians and researchers thus insuring enhanced patient care by promoting educational opportunities and expanding the professionalism of cancer registrars.
California Cancer Registry - http://www.ccrcal.org/
The California Cancer Registry (CCR) is California’s statewide population-based cancer surveillance system. The CCR collects information about cancers diagnosed in California.
CancerNet — http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/
A service of the National Cancer Institute is a gateway to the most recent and accurate cancer information from the National Cancer Institute.
Cancer Mondial http://www-dep.iarc.fr/
This web site provides access to information on the occurrence of cancer world-wide held by the Unit of Descriptive Epidemiology at the International Agency for Research on Cancer.
Cnet Solutions - http://www.askcnet.org/
Ask C/NET presents online publications of the California Cancer Registry, including the annual report on cancer incidence in California. Ask C/NET offers you the capability of querying public use data files released by population-based cancer registries.
North American Association of Central Cancer Registries (NAACCR) - http://www.naaccr.org/
NAACCR is a collaborative umbrella organization for cancer registries, governmental agencies, professional associations, and private groups in North America interested in enhancing the quality and use of cancer registry data. Most central cancer registries in the United States and Canada are members.
National Cancer Registrar Association (NCRA) - http://www.ncra-usa.org/
NCRA is a non-profit, professional organization whose purposes are to establish standards of education for cancer registrars; to inform its members of the latest methods of cancer diagnosis, treatment and current trends in incidence and survival, and to make cancer patient data readily available for clinical and epidemiological research.
Super Course in Cancer Epidemiology: http://www.pitt.edu/~SUPER1/lecture/lec7231/index.htm
This course is designed to provide an overview on epidemiology and the Internet for medical and health related students around the world. The concept of the course is described in the British Medical Journal as the Global Health Network University. Lecture style is described in the Nature Medicine as Hypertext Comic Books.
Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) - http://www-seer.ims.nci.nih.gov/
The SEER Program of the National Cancer Institute is the most authoritative source of information on cancer incidence and survival in the United States. Information on more than 2.5 million cancer cases is included in the SEER database, and approximately 160,000 new cases are accessioned each year within the SEER catchment areas
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