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The AMAZON Alternative Therapies for Breast Cancer mailing list

This mailing list was founded in 1996 by Bonnie Bedford.

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This is our Charter

This list is for those interested in alternative therapies as treatment for breast cancer. This is a safe and supportive forum for women to discuss any aspect of the disease, physical, mental, spiritual, body image, treatments they are trying, treatments they are interested in learning about, medical studies of alternative treatments.

To insure the privacy of the list members, this list is not publically archived.

Please note: there are other mail lists, news groups and web sites for people who are using chemotherapy and radiation as primary treatments for cancer. This is not a list for discussion on using chemo or radiation. No member of this list will ever have to defend her decision to refuse those treatments, nor is this a forum for discussing ways to ease the side effects of chemotherapy and radiation.

Possible Topics

* Any alternative therapy such as herbs, supplements, diet, meditation, journal keeping, fasting, etc.
* Emotional issues
* Body image
* Family
* Doctors
* Depression, pain
* Any aspect of breast cancer, etc.
* Medical studies pertaining to breast cancer
* Friendly chatter and pure fluff

Unacceptable topics

* Reasons why chemotherapy and radiation are "necessary" or "good"
* Criticism of list members for refusing orthodox treatment
* Discussion of adjuvant therapy to relieve the side effects of chemotherapy or radiation
* Meta discussion about the list itself

List Etiquette

* Please keep your line length short. Long lines are difficult to follow
* Include white space between paragraphs
* Use both upper and lower case letters
* When replying to a post, trim the included text to one or two lines
* If the subject wanders from the original topic, change the subject line on your post
* Remain civil at all times
* Confine your criticisms to ideas rather than to individuals. Remember that the other posters are real, live people with real, live feelings
* Sleep on angry or inflammatory posts
* Take private disagreements to private email
* IMPORTANT! There will be no posts extolling the virtues of conventional treatment or criticizing list members for refusing those  treatments
* NEVER forward any post from this list to another list or individual without the permission of the person who posted it. This list is for our support and what we say on it is private and confidential.
* The list owner will send one private warning to any poster causing problems. The person will be unsubbed on the "second offence". Cancer is hard enough without our mail list being turned into a place of stress. This is a place for friendship and support.

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