Cancer Survivor, writing about Health and Fitness as you age

Sometime ago I read a BusinessWeek article that talked about how people with some chronic illnesses were using a social networking site to connect ( BW 12/4/2008, Health 2.0) . Basically they shared all their personal and medical information with each other and are able to compare experiences, diagnoses, treatments, etc. In a specific case talked about in the BusinessWeek, one person spear-headed a low-level clinical trial of a treatment that no doctor, hospital or drug company were interested in pursuing. Why am I blogging about this? This August will be 7 years since I lost my mother to breast cancer, and aside from the various monetary contributions I make, I signed on to The Love/Avon Army of Women site http://www.armyofwomen.org/ . It is a partnership between Dr. Susan Love and Avon. While not quite the same as a social networking site, it does use the power of the internet to reach out to as many women as possible who would be willing to support the ongoing search for the cure...