Anne-Marie,
you have captured exacly what I had in mind when I started this topic. I was scared out of my wits when I came here. Panic might be a better word. Easing the transistion from shock/panic to action/education and knowledge is the game plan here.

I did a search on the main link (using the search engine one the bottom of the page-for "cancer definitions") just moments ago and couldn't find a link to the most common cancer definitions/abbreviations (which really helps patients/caregiver understand their patient records and acronyms frequently used here). You don't have to go the the UK, here is a link to the NCI (US national Cancer Institue) definitions that I frequently cite:
http://www.cancer.gov/dictionary/

Oops - I stand corrected - we already have an NCI cancer definitions link in the "resources" section on the main page. But these are the kinds of glitches I am talking about and oftentimes it is as easy to fix and adding a few "keywords" by our webmaster.

But for our UK patients, they may have slightly different terminology so more than one link is perfectly ok as well.

As there are "parlimentary rules of order", there has to be some for the forum as well. We have learned through experience, the hard way though, this is unavoidable and we would hope that those coming here would understand that it's for their own protection (but they won't all be in caps I promise!)

There are far too many scam artists out there and occasionally persons will advocate other than standard medical care - faith healing, etc. We also manage to get a few "phychologically challenged" persons here a year and that must be dealt with also.

We make every effort to maintain a minimum level of quality without being imposing.