
Alone Together Cancer Patients and Survivors Find Treatment—and Support—Online. It Can Make All the Difference
Author(s) -
Landro Laura
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
the oncologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.176
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1549-490X
pISSN - 1083-7159
DOI - 10.1634/theoncologist.4-1-59
Subject(s) - medicine , cancer , cancer treatment , oncology
“It saved me spiritually and psychologically,” she says. “I could compare notes with patients around the world, and I have made friends through BMT-Talk that rival lifelong relationships.” Mrs. Goldman says the information she finds online “has made me often more informed than the oncologists we meet.” Though Allan has responded extremely well to interferon and is in complete remission, she continues to subscribe to BMT-Talk, saying it “has taught me we are not alone in this horrific turn of events we call cancer.”