There need to be more resources for the angry and cynical, ie, people like me/us.
The cancer boards tend to run to puppies and kittens and people who write LOL a lot, with extra added wackos.
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Ginger - Jun 27, 2008 12:45:08 pm PDT #5114 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Toddson - Jun 27, 2008 12:47:29 pm PDT #5115 of 10001
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Ginger, how are they on facts? I know there's a lot of garbage about cancer around and I just wonder.
Connie Neil - Jun 27, 2008 12:48:49 pm PDT #5116 of 10001
brillig
The cancer boards tend to run to puppies and kittens and people who write LOL a lot, with extra added wackos.
More power to those that sort of thing helps, but gosh. There needs to a place for the snide and bitter.
javachik - Jun 27, 2008 1:27:37 pm PDT #5117 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
There needs to a place for the snide and bitter.
See my tag.
beth b - Jun 27, 2008 1:31:19 pm PDT #5118 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
Diabetes boards tend to be that way too.
Not that I want everyone angry and cynical. But at least room to be angry would be good.
Anne W. - Jun 27, 2008 1:51:31 pm PDT #5119 of 10001
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Connie Neil - Jun 27, 2008 1:56:56 pm PDT #5120 of 10001
brillig
Diabetes boards tend to be that way too.
The last place sugary sweetness should be.
Ginger - Jun 27, 2008 2:05:08 pm PDT #5121 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The accuracy of sites varies wildly, but there are some really good ones. The American Cancer Society's is good. Breastcancer.org is great. You'll find that a lot of sites, if you read the small print, are sponsored by drug companies. Often they have some good information, but I wonder whether there's an inherent bias. Once you get off the semi-official sites for the different types of cancer, it's the wild west. It's like almost every other kind of web research. The problem is not so much the nonsense as the number of people who don't recognize nonsense.
NoiseDesign - Jun 27, 2008 2:10:34 pm PDT #5122 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
Yeah, we have pretty good information. Dad was a pathologist. He's at one of the hospitals that his company did the lab work for. It's his old company who did the labs on his case.
beth b - Jun 27, 2008 2:17:45 pm PDT #5123 of 10001
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I don't know if this is the case with cancer boards, but with chronic disease boards ( diabetes,asthma) the official info is very broad and general. and the discussion stuff has everything from rumors , to folk medicine ( which may or may not help),to whiners ( oh no my blood sugar is 5 pts higher than yesterday) ,to an occasional piece of practical advice. I get overloaded trying to pick through the info. My wish for a board is that someone would comb through the various threads and codify the info.