Mayo Clinic Oncologists Answer Cancer Questions Online
One of the top cancer treatment facilities in the world is offering you the opportunity to e-mail your questions about cancer to their oncology experts.
The Mayo Clinic web site has a feature called Ask a Cancer Specialist which allows anybody with internet access the chance to ask Mayo’s experienced specialists their tough cancer questions for free – even if they’re not a patient at one of Mayo’s facilities.
If your question is selected, Mayo will publish both the question and the answer on Mayo’s web site. Queries and responses are archived on the web site so other cancer patients and caregivers can benefit from the exchange.
Not all questions get a response, but a lot of good information is circulated in this forum. Alternative medicines, chemobrain, and pancreatic cancer treatments are just a few of the topics Mayo’s doctors have already discussed.
While some cancer support groups and hospitals manage chat rooms which include discussions with health professionals interspersed with messages of encouragement and personal testimonials, Mayo’s Ask a Cancer Specialist site concentrates on medical information alone — a real time saver if you’re short on time and facts are all you need. The clinic also posts the name, photo, title and some background on the physician who provided the response so you’ll know where the information originated.
This type of health tool appears to have a lot of potential value for cancer patients and I’ve looked for similar services from other oncologists, but so far I haven’t found any being updated regularly. If you’ve seen any other high quality sites our readers should know about, please send me an e-mail (Lisa@CancerResearchJournal.com) and I’ll add them to our del.icio.us bookmarks.
Source: CancerResearchJournal.com
Related Links: The New York Times; CNN
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