Cancer : evidence online flower ... especially in English

If internet is a source of medical information increasingly used by patients, English sites added bar to the building by offering patient testimonials online , as well as discussions between patients , relatives and specialists to download plain text, video and / or audio .
The Internet : a new essential tool for patients
Colorectal cancer, the second most deadly in the United States and the United Kingdom cancer cancer, part with breast cancer pathologies which are focusing more and more users .

Also the UK site www.dipex.org , hosted by the University of Oxford and distinguished by The Times and The Guardian as one of the best sites dedicated to patients , he launched a fully dedicated to cancer screening section of intestines. It complements other groups that revolve around stories of breast , prostate , lung , ovarian ... but also diseases other than cancer.

For example , the section on screening for bowel cancer include people , who tell their stories as downloadable and recordable stories . Six cases are discussed : the person has declined the test for occult blood in the stool, it is accepted and the result is normal , this result is not clear , but in the end the situation is normal , or the patient undergoes a colonoscopy is negative or positive , with polyp or cancer.

The interviewees were asked to talk about all aspects of their experience: they tell jumble fears, family history, the setbacks encountered with testing for occult blood in the stool, hospital accompaniment , the information , preparation for colonoscopy , advertising, etc. . The words are simple and very different experiences .

" Educational platforms on the mode of conversation"
In the United States, Dr. Neil Love , an oncologist for 10 years at the University of Miami ( Florida ) and director of a U.S. company CME , publishes on the Internet a series of " educational platforms on fashion conversation " for patients whose colorectal.cancerQandA.com also available on breast cancer ( breast.cancerQandA.com ) and lung cancer.

It gathers the testimonies of people with less advanced colorectal cancer , who underwent adjuvant chemotherapy , as well as their families, and expert advice , discussing the appropriateness of chemotherapy as appropriate. Each theme is available in text and audio formats.

" The TV and radio journalists remain on short formats to generate immediate interest to a mass audience " advance Dr. Thomas Shives , a surgeon at the Mayo Clinic ( Minnesota ) and medical director of radio and audio programs that the institution shall available on its website.

" People are downloading [ Internet ] documents on topics that interest them , they want a more detailed discussion ," he says in the news release announcing the online audio exchanges between experts from the Mayo Clinic and patients.

The video and audio formats allow the user to view or listen to clips on a computer, but also to save them to a support ( mp3 player, DVD ... ) or broadcast .

In France , the site of the National Cancer Institute ( Inca ) offers a series of video testimonials with an average duration of one minute.