Online Support for Mesothelioma Survivors: What's Working Now
Remote support groups, including phone and Internet components, offer a unique way to help mesothelioma patients and caregivers – even when they’re not in session. That’s the finding of a new study conducted by researchers at Columbia University, the Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation, and Maimonides Medical Center in New York. The researchers found that online and and telephone support as part of a closed group allowed participants to engage in healthy reflection between sessions and made it easier to cope with their malignant mesothelioma. The Challenge of Surviving Mesothelioma As the research team observed in Translational Lung Cancer Research, health-related quality of life tends to diminish for both mesothelioma patients and their caregivers almost as soon as they are diagnosed….
