Cancer Diary: Blogs with Real Answers to Caregivers and Family Members of Dying Patients

 



Although it is often difficult to find time to read while coping with cancer or providing care to loved ones with cancer, following one or more blogs on cancer and interacting with them can bring helpful information and peace of mind. 

Here is a list of cancer blogs from the CCC.

AONN+ Blog
Meant for nurses, the topics in this blog are nonetheless helpful for any caregiver, such as this one on compassion fatigue. There does not seem to be a search function, so you may need to sift through the topics to get to the ones you might find helpful, but the topics can be seen at a glance so it is not unduly time-consuming.

Cancer Compass
This is not a blog per se but rather an informational message board seeking to individualize and personalize information and care.

Cancer Support Community Blog
This blog addresses specific cancers on a personal level, includes posts on multiple facets of cancer, and is very easily searched. (One cancer that it does not address is cancer of unknown primary, which prompted the CCC and Cancer Diary blog (though both these MSI Press efforts have taken a broader approach than just narrowly focusing on CUP.)

The Cancer Support Community offers more than just a blog. It offers both general information and advocacy and specific information and assistance for caregivers, patients, and loved ones. It includes three institutes that make up its three pillars of its raison d’etre:

  • policy
  • psychosocial care
  • research & training

Coping with the Big C
Blog posts providing information on research and a lot of functional information; combination website and blog.

I Had Cancer
Blog posts along with information, personal stories, and a shop. IHC is also a private group that offers one-one-one personal connections where cancer patients and survivors can safely talk to someone like themselves.

Living with Cancer of Unknown Primary blog
Blog posts also make forays into other kinds of cancer.

Something to Think about: a blog on the end of life
The author of Gone from My Sight and A Place in My Heart, Barbara Karnes, also maintains a blog with answers to questions that are hard to find elsewhere: Something to Think About: a blog on the end of life.

Lists of blogs
Some websites have searched and vetted blog sites. They provide links to those blogs they consider the best. This is a good place to start, whether you are looking for general cancer information or information about a specific cancer, typically encapsulated in real-life experiences.

Healthline has a list of the best cancer blogs of 2021, with links.

The Patient Story contains links to the top ten cancer blogs for breast, kidney, leukemia, lung, and lymphoma cancers.

For other Cancer Diary posts, click HERE.

Blog editor's note: As a memorial to Carl, and simply because it is truly needed, MSI Press is now hosting a web page, Carl's Cancer Compendium, as a one-stop starting point for all things cancer, to make it easier for those with cancer to find answers to questions that can otherwise take hours to track down on the Internet and/or from professionals. The CCC is expanded and updated weekly. As part of this effort, each week, on Monday, this blog will carry an informative, cancer-related story -- and be open to guest posts: Cancer Diary. 


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