Crowdsourcing cancer survival with new online communities

Surviving cancer is tough. Not only do you have to get through the many diabolical treatments which destroy health tissues along with disease and leave you crippled and disabled for life, but there are powerful social stigmas that can limit your career and lifestyle after the treatment. Fortunately a number of online communities for cancer … Continue reading Crowdsourcing cancer survival with new online communities

When the treatment is worse than the disease: social perspectives on cancer care

For many cancer survivors, the conventional mainstream treatment, radiation and chemotherapy come with a host of side effects which are crippling and sometimes lethal, which might be slow growing or treatable more conservatively. For example, new studies show that survivors of Hodgkin's disease once considered the lone example of the effectiveness of radiation and chemotherapy … Continue reading When the treatment is worse than the disease: social perspectives on cancer care