Bertie Bosrédon

I think you could add peer support to the list, which goes beyond networking.

At Breast Cancer Care, we have developed a few web based services for advice (e.g. Ask the nurse email service) and some services centered around peer support. Our discussion forum is getting over 12,000 posts per month (x3 what we had last year). We have increased our Live Chat sessions to twice weekly and are piloting a peer to peer email support with connects a newly diagnosed patient with a trained volunteer.

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