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Breast Cancer
Online support groups relieve patients' feelings of social isolation
May 19th, 2005
Breast cancer patients are finding that support groups they find on the Internet help alleviate feelings of social isolation that can result from their illness. M.T. Hoybye and colleagues, Danish Cancer Society, wrote, "The Internet provides new ways of forming social relationships among people with breast cancer and is increasingly used for this purpose. This qualitative study, using ethnographic case-study method, aimed to explore how support groups on the Internet can break the social isolation that follows cancer and chronic pain, by analyzing the storytelling emerging on the Scandinavian Breast Cancer Mailing list. "Using participant observation...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-05-19)
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