Patient Education Information

Vaginal Cancer - The Cleveland Clinic provides this information on the diagnosis and treatment of this woman's cancer.

Active Coping Helps Gynecologic Cancer Patients' Quality of Life - The American Cancer Society offers this advice on how to cope with gynecologic cancers.

Cancer Facts - The National Cancer Institute has created dozens of fact sheets about all aspects of cancer, they can be accessed here. They also have versions in Spanish.

CancerNet: Dictionary of Cancer Terms -This online dictionary is compiled by CancerNet, a service of the National Cancer Institute.

Do What You Can to Ease Side Effects of Treatment for Vaginal Cancer - The Women's Cancer Network offers this information.

MD Anderson Cancer Center - Read the latest news and research from this respected Cancer Center.

MEDLINEPlus Medical Encyclopedia - The Health Illustrated Encyclopedia from MedlinePlus includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests, symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs and illustrations. Please check the alphabetic listing for the topic you want.

National Cancer Institute: PDQ - Cancer treatment summaries for patients, written in easy-to-understand, non-technical language, can be obtained by selecting the appropriate cancer type.

Possible Sexual Side Effects of Cancer Treatment - The Mayo Clinic provides this look at what may happen and how to handle it.

Vaginal Bleeding: What's Normal, What's Not? - The Mayo Clinic explains when it is normal, and when you should worry and hurry to a doctor.

Vaginal Cancer - The University of Maryland Medicine group has prepared this fact sheet.

What Are the Risk Factors for Vaginal Cancer? - The American Cancer Society shares this information.

Your Cancer Risk - Take this quick quiz from the Washington University School of Medicine to see what your risk level is, and how to lower that risk.