The Stanford Patient Education Research Center is excited to announce that we are now recruiting more cancer survivors into our online workshop and study. Over the last year we have run a very successful recruitment campaign, and hundreds of first time survivors have joined our study. Although we have been happy with our success, due to study criteria we unfortunately had to turn away many survivors who had faced a cancer diagnoses more than once. Thanks to additional funding from the Stanford Cancer Center we have revised our inclusion criteria and are now exclusively recruiting survivors that have been diagnosed with a recurring or second cancer.
What is the new study all about?
Cancer: Surviving and Thriving is a 6-week
workshop and study for cancer survivors who have survived cancer more than once. This program teaches cancer survivors the skills needed in the day-to-day management of life after cancer and gives skills to take control of their health. Participants learn ways to manage fatigue, difficult emotions, and after effects of cancer treatment. They also connect with other cancer survivors online. Qualified participants will be randomly assigned to either participate in the workshop immediately or to a control group that will take the workshop in 6 months. Participants are asked to log into the study web site 2-3 times during each week, for a total of 2 hours a week for 6 weeks.
How can I Help?
Please help us spread the word to your online community and beyond. This is a national study, and is done completely online. You can help to get the word out a variety of ways
including:
1)Forward this message to all of your group members and ask them to visit
http://cancersurvivors.stanford.edu 2)If you are part of additional online discussion groups ,use Facebook or Twitter, or just know of someone in your life that would be interested please send them to
http:// cancersurvivors.stanford.edu
3)Request Flyers or publicity by emailing
[email protected].
If you have questions, please email
[email protected] or call Kate,
Diana, Katy toll free at 1-800-366-2624.
