4 ways MyLifeLine.org can help during your cancer experience

When someone is diagnosed with cancer it’s easy for them to become overwhelmed with the influx of new information. Not only are they suddenly bombarded with doctor appointments, gathering resources, learning about their diagnosis and making treatment decisions, but there’s the family members and friends who want regular updates on progress and want to know how to help.

Returning every phone call, email and request for information can be exhausting. MyLifeLine.org Cancer Foundation is an important resource that can help relieve the burden of communication that cancer patients and caregivers often feel.

Here are a few ways MyLifeLine.org can help:

1. Build a Community of Support. Patients and caregivers can easily organize and coordinate the help they need using the Helping Calendar. Set up rides to treatment, a babysitter for the kids or a friend to bring meals, all through your MyLifeLine.org personal site.
2. Communicate with Friends and Family. Patients can share updates on progress and treatment, or use the tool to journal about their experience, all in one central location. Patients often use MyLifeLine.org as an outlet and personal blog during their experience, and friends and family can leave comments of encouragement and support on each update.
3. Collect Resources on Your Specific Cancer. The Learning Links tool enables patients to collect resources and share information about their specific cancer type with friends and family, so they can easily get a betterunderstanding of their diagnosis.
4. Create a Personal Fundraiser. Friends and family can easily donate directly to the patient to help with treatment costs and other medical needs using PayPal through the Giving Angels tool on your MyLifeLine.org personal site.

Every day, MyLifeLine.org provides free, personal and private websites to cancer patients and caregivers to help them easily connect with family and friends, because every cancer patient should feel supported. A patient – or a friend or family member, can create a site and invite guests to visit and offer support. Click here to set up a MyLifeLine.org personal site and start building your online support community.

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