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Research and Education on Cancer Treatment Options
Serving Patients, Caregivers and Medical Professionals Since 2001
Our Philosophy: Knowledge is power—and hope. Cancer patients, their families and their physicians want, need and deserve access to all the best knowledge they want about available treatment options. We know these folks have far more important things to do than spend hours online.
Your Cancer Source
(YCS) was born from years of painful personal experience in coping with
cancer and all the overwhelming decisions that were required. We simply
wanted to make this difficult learning process more effective and efficient
for cancer patients and those who care for them. The conclusions of medical
research are nearly always imperfect, but individual patients must make
life or death decisions anyway. If you are a cancer patient, we sincerely
hope this information helps you make better decisions, save precious time
and remain hopeful.
Our Purposes:
Our main goal is to save you precious time and energy as you learn what
you want to learn about cancer treatment options. Specifically, the purpose
of this site is to provide for patients and their advocates quicker, easier
and more accurate information access on new (mostly experimental) drugs
and other leading-edge cancer treatment options as they become available.
We are in the process of training a select group of medical professionals to be used as needed on a consulting basis. We hope to help answer any questions you can't answer yourself by studying the web sites listed in the useful web sites section. Please email us if you would like to be trained as a volunteer research assistant. We are looking for newly retired physicians and other doctoral level pharmaceutical research professionals.
Brief Bio of Diane Bradford, Founder of YCS:
Diane earned her B.S. in Psychology in 1969, her M.S. in School Psychology in 1976, and her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology in 1980—all from the University of Utah. Diane worked as a School Psychologist diagnosing learning problems for people aged 3-21 during the late 1970's. Since 1980 she has worked as a teacher, researcher and manager at several schools and universities and in varied industries, including hospital information systems, medical education, manufacturing, and financial services. She has directed the design, creation and delivery of many software and educational video products for working adults. She has taught kindergarten and emotionally disturbed pre-schoolers as well as graduate-level psychology classes. She has been a guest lecturer for MBA students and coached many business school faculty on how to teach executives more effectively. She also taught a program (which she designed) on how to learn more in less time as part of the Advanced Management Program for senior corporate executives at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.
Funding:
YCS is primarily funded by Diane Bradford of Seattle, Washington. She does most work at no charge, but there is a fee for those who are able to pay for customized research and education services. Every cent is used to support YCS to maintain this web page.
Advertising:
YCS does not accept ANY advertising, period.
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