The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has updated its cancer information delivery services. In the future, please use the Cancer.gov web site (Http: //cancer.gov/) to meet your cancer information needs. CancerMail users in the United States can obtain cancer information by telephone at 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237).

The NCI will no longer support CancerMail after November 2002. If you have comments about the NCI's cancer information delivery services, contact us by e-mail at cancer.govstaff@mail.nih.gov or call 301-496-9096.

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The CancerNet Search Service provides customized searches from the National Cancer Institute's PDQ and CANCERLIT databases to health professionals. Physicians and other health professionals can make requests through a toll-free telephone service, e-mail, or fax. The goal of the Search Service is to make information from PDQ and CANCERLIT available to health professionals who do not have the time or resources to access the databases directly. The CancerNet Search Service is supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI).

2. What is PDQ?

PDQ is the NCI's comprehensive, computerized cancer information database. Updated monthly, PDQ contains the most up-to-date information available about cancer treatment, screening, prevention, genetics, and supportive care.

PDQ contains:

• Treatment Summaries for Patients and Health Professionals: peer-reviewed, detailed staging and treatment information for more than 80 types of adult and pediatric cancers.
  

• Screening/Detection Summaries for Patients and Health Professionals: peer-reviewed information about cancer screening for major cancer sites.
  

• Prevention Summaries for Patients and Health Professionals: peer-reviewed information about cancer prevention for major cancer sites.
  

• Supportive Care Summaries for Patients and Health Professionals: peer-reviewed information on the assessment and management of problems and conditions commonly associated with cancer and its treatment.
  

• Genetics Summaries for Health Professionals: peer-reviewed information on genetics of specific cancers and inherited cancer syndromes.
  

• Clinical Trials: open and closed clinical trials from around the world.
  

• Directories of Health Care Professionals and Organizations: approximately 25,000 physicians, professionals who provide cancer genetics services, and over 3,000 organizations active in cancer care.
  

CANCERLIT is an NCI bibliographic database of more than 1.5 million records of cancer literature published in the last 30 years. It is updated monthly to provide a comprehensive, up-to-date resource of published cancer research results.

4. What area does the CancerNet Search Service serve?

The Service Center serves the health professional community worldwide. Hours of operation are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Eastern U.S. time.

5. How do health professionals request searches through the CancerNet Search
Service?

Health professionals can use the following methods to reach the Search Service:

Toll-free telephone: 1-800-345-3300
Toll-free fax (inside U.S.): 1-800-380-1575
Fax outside the U.S.: 301-897-9563

Internet e-mail: pdqsearch@cips.nci.nih.gov

Mail: CancerNet Search Service National Cancer Institute Suite 3002B, 6116 Executive Boulevard Bethesda, MD 20892

Search Specialists, trained by NCI to take search requests from health professionals, perform the searches. Although Search Specialists are not physicians and cannot make recommendations, they can provide the most accurate and up-to-date information available from PDQ.

7. How will the Search Service send information to requestors?

The Search Service can send information via mail, fax, or e-mail. The Search Service can also send materials via express mail if the requestor covers the cost.

Note: There are limits on the length of information that can be sent via fax.

This fact sheet was reviewed on 12/12/00

You may want more information for yourself, your family, and your doctor. The following National Cancer Institute (NCI) services are available to help you.

Telephone...

Cancer Information Service (CIS)

Provides accurate, up-to-date information on cancer to patients and their families, health professionals, and the general public. Information specialists translate the latest scientific information into understandable language and respond in English, Spanish, or on TTY equipment.

Toll-free: 1-800-4-CANCER (1-800-422-6237)
TTY: 1-800-332-8615

These web sites may be useful:

Http: //www.nci.nih.gov - NCI's primary web site; contains information about the Institute and its programs.

Http: //cancernet.nci.nih.gov - CancerNet; contains material for health professionals, patients, and the public, including information from PDQ about cancer treatment, screening, prevention, genetics, supportive care, and clinical trials, and CANCERLIT, a bibliographic database.

Http: //cancertrials.nci.nih.gov - cancerTrials; NCI's comprehensive clinical trials information center for patients, health professionals, and the public. Includes information on understanding trials, deciding whether to participate in trials, finding specific trials, plus research news and other resources.

E-mail...

CancerMail

Includes NCI information about cancer treatment, screening, prevention, genetics, and supportive care. To obtain a contents list, send e-mail to cancermail@icicc.nci.nih.gov with the word "help" in the body of the message.

Fax...

CancerFax

Includes NCI information about cancer treatment, screening, prevention, genetics, and supportive care. To obtain a contents list, dial 301-402-5874 or 1-800-624-2511 from a touch-tone telephone or fax machine hand set and follow the recorded instructions.

Date Last Modified: 12/2000

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