survey on compassionate communications about cancer

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Lori Hope and new survey on compassionate communications about cancer

Lori Hope, who was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2002, is conducting a simple anonymous online survey for the second edition of her book "Help Me Live: 20 things people with cancer want you to know".

Lori is doing very valuable research and education on communications between those diagnosed with cancer and all the people they interact with about their cancer - partners, relatives, friends, medical team members, and casual interactors. Improving such communications will help almost everyone on the planet at some time or another, whether we are visited by cancer or whether someone we know is.

She asks: "Cancer survivors, what words and actions are most -- and least -- helpful to you? Pls. add your voice to this survey for the 2nd edition of "Help Me Live: 20 things people with cancer want you to know", & enter to win prizes. Close to 500 survivors have already responded. THANK YOU, on behalf of survivors everywhere, and those who love them!"

"Help Me Live: 20 things people with cancer want you to know ... is one of Amazon.com's best-selling "cancer support" books. The survey's purpose is to help those of us who've been diagnosed with cancer receive the most respectful and sensitive support possible, which contributes to our living more satisfying, richer, and perhaps even longer lives."

"You don't have to answer all of the questions, but if you do, it will take 5 to 10 minutes, depending on how much information you choose to share."

The address of the survey is www.surveygizmo.com/s3/367413/Help-Me-Live

You can read more about Lori and her work on her website www.lorihope.com.

She also writes a professional blog "Hope for Cancer: what helps, what hurts, what heals" for CarePages.com here.