This is a wonderful support site. And there are others on Google,
Yahoo, MSN, as well as at Johns Hopkins Hospital and elsewhere. My
experience with the support group has really been limited to the
sharing of my mother's story, and the possibilities of alternative
approaches. I hope you have read her story of hope.

Unfortunately, there are a few here who for some reason hold a very
narrow view of what should be discussed. If you read several of the
posts, and the responses of these folks, it doesn't take long for you
to figure out who these folks are.

You should indeed be cautious about any anecdotal experiences posted
here or anywhere. You should never try anything without making your own
independent investigation of any route suggested by any source for
treatment. The internet has made independent investigation of our
diseases and the plethora of possible treatments available to all. Read
them, and talk with your oncologist about them. Be very careful about
anyone who dismisses any possibility "out of hand". If what they
espouse worked every time, the world would beknight them, use their
ideas, and cancer would go away.

But by all means read all ideas presented. Not to do so might cheat
one's chance for a cure.

These are our lives we are talking about here. Not some hypothetical
debate. I think we all want the same thing; to support another's chance
at recovering from cancer. Aren't we?