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Considering Creating A Companion Cancer Site

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Feb 9 2:58pm | Replies (17)

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@jeffmarc

You might look at Ancan.org They have multiple different meetings were cancer. Patients can talk about their issues.. They have an Under 60s group and a group for veterans that can really help with getting medical support.

They really create a community of people with their weekly 2 hour online advanced prostate cancer meetings. They sent the newsletter out every week with Information about the latest things going on with prostate cancer. I also have meetings for low/intermediate cancer and active surveillance. People getting together and talking about things works pretty well.

Your biggest problem is finding people that would be participating in your Cancer site. It is very hard To get people to participate in these things. There’s other people that have tried doing online meetings have had to stop due to lack of interest. Wish you luck.

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It's not an online meeting place, it's just a repository for progress, diagnosis, testing results, etc so you can not only see your own statistics easily but find others with similar statistics. It wouldn't be a replacement for Mayo or Ancan, but a way to track your data and find others who might be in similar situations and they then might have profile links to Mayo or Ancan or whatever so you know exactly who to read up on.

If there's no interest, I'm not going to spend the time, but if there is then I'm willing to do it.