A great deal of effort is spent trying to confuse those who are already very
confused.  We don't try to promote negativity, but we do ask that proof be
given with a product that is being promoted as a cancer therapy, preventive
or palliative.  All we want is proof.
If you dwell deep enough into some of these individuals who spam here, you
will find that they are neither willing nor able to give proof of the
product and most of the time, they are asking for something much more
precious than money for the NG participants.  They are asking for us to give
them our hope and our trust.  Many of us have both in limited quantity by
the time we arrive here.
There are many here that are supportive in emotional and caring ways. They
have genuine experience and empathy for the situations that arise here.  You
will find support here.
However, it is up to you who you want to believe.  Take care that you read
all the information before you fall into the spammers choice of greed.
Those who have negative feelings on spammers do so with years of experience.
Judge carefully who you would rather hear from, a spammer with quack ideas,
or a pessimist with experience.  You can sometimes fall into a large hole
with either, but it would be cautious to weigh both sides without jumping
head long into one.  You could give yourself a very large headache.
Experience is the road to wisdom.
Take care
Salisha

yesandnoway@yahoo.com said...

Eh?  Have you actually been paying attention?

Let's see now: alt.support.cancer -
* alt = alternative (Usenet speak);
* support = mutual support, friendship, swapping of stories and
anecdotes, encouraging, helping, information, successes and
failures, life, death, mutual support, friendship, sympthy, empathy;
* cancer = all of the above, within the framework of cancer, the
disease, the sufferers, the carers

Sit around?  Good grief, no.  What do you think laptops were made
for?  Accept it?  Well yes.  I mean, what's the alternative?  
Denying it exists?  Hardly practical, is it.  So yes, accept it,
because wishing it away isn't going to do much.  OTOH if you mean
sitting around moping because you've got cancer and you're going to
die and there's nothing you can do about it then you really haven't
been paying attention, have you.  People here, even those who've
recently lost someone close to them, are remarkably positive.  
Nobody actually *wants* a terminal disease, but once you've got it
you have to live with it and make the best of it.  That's where the
NG comes into its own, because it's full of people who have lived
life to the full under very trying circumstances.

What was your question again?

I've been lurking here about 5 days, posted yesterday and already recieved
support and encouragement. Negativity?
Hell no!! Me and my Mom faced the fear and joked about it today while
waiting for the CAT scan. She has colon cancer and she will beat this like
she did breast Cancer!

Someone else posted messages similar to yours, except that that one was
pandering a book.  However, my answer to him appears appropriate to you as to
who we are.  

I believe that you got your first answer.  by your own admission, you know
nothing about the subject.  We are sufferers, who, in most cases have no idea
how we got into the predicament.  It isn't pleasant to have a doctor deliver a
death warrant to you, as you lie in a hospital bed, and it is more humiliating
to read posts like yours.  We have a problem, and share it with others.  Please,
unless you can obviously do us a great service, leave us
alone.  We have our problems, and want to share them with ourselves.

I ask you, when were you given your death threat?  When were you told you had
cancer?  What was your reaction?

Until you can answer these questions, Please don't criticize us, and definitely
leave us alone.

Grateful to be back.

Eddie