A Diet to Die For! Breast Cancer in Canada.

Rethink Breast Cancer.

Site Launch October 6, 2009.

I received an email this morning letting me a know about a brand new site for women with Breast Cancer.

To quote:

“Rethink Breast Cancer just launched  www.TellHER2.ca the first online community connecting women affected by HER2+ breast cancer. Women can go online and actually share their experiences through video, photos, and words.  HER2+ breast cancer is very aggressive, so knowing that they are not alone can really be a source of strength.

Check out our SMR - http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/Rethink-Breast-Cancer-1055514.html – and please contact me if you have questions. If you are interested, I can put you in touch with someone from Rethink.”

So thanks Sarah B. for the information!

In today’s local newspaper, I noticed a tiny article about a new site for cancer called http://www.cancerview.ca.

I poked around for a minute or two and then clicked on the “About this Site” link and see that it’s a federally funded site, which appears to link (or tries to link) all the Canadian cancer sites together.

My first thought is do we really need another cancer site? And in this economy, do we really need to see our tax dollars going to this type of web site? If someone doesn’t know how to use a search engine or the Blue Pages of their phone book, they are certainly not going to know how to find this new web site.

Dear Prime Minister: please stop funding these fringe web sites that no one will ever use — cancer may be in all our communities, but I don’t need a “community of cancer [victims or survivors]” in order to feel like I belong somewhere.

It would be nice if all web sites funded partially or wholly through federal tax grants would link to each other, rather than throw money at something new that should be an automatic courtesy.

Oh, for a few dollars more, I’m surprised that no one thought of registering cancerviews.ca (the plural) since it appears to be available as well — it’s an extra few bucks and could easily be redirected to the correct site.