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Peer-to-Peer Medical Record Sharing

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Patient Testimonial: I am a professional librarian with a strong interest in internet based resources. Last year, I also became a lung cancer patient. Like most non-smoking women, my cancer was only discovered when it was quite advanced. Unfortunately, I am not unique. Most new cases are not found at an early stage. And even when it is discovered early, lung cancer is like an evil boomerang. It almost always comes back and hits you hard. This means that almost everyone with lung cancer is regarded as treatable but not curable. I believe I speak for all lung cancer sufferers when I state that the primary issue they face is one of treatment. Will it work, how effective will it be and how long will the efficacy persist? I’ve been following Peer Medical’s progress for the past year. I’ve watched it grow from a collection of basic data to a functional database that has the potential to save lives. Lung cancer is a constantly mutating histological and genetic conundrum. It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, for an individual patient to find another patient with issues that closely resemble their own. Peer Medical is currently the only source to which patients can refer in order to find other patients who may have cancers with similar profiles and patterns so they can form a solid basis of comparison to guide them in their treatment. There is nothing else like Peer Medical. There are some online user groups to which one can turn for anecdotal information, help coping with medication side effects and emotional support. But, like so many internet sources, user groups are often bombarded with false information of dubious origin. Patients who use Peer Medical have the luxury of knowing that the other users are authentic and the treatments and trials they see are true. The importance of that for someone with a deadly illness is impossible to underestimate.
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Ed Spiegel
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Ed Spiegel

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Mariah Balestracci

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Willis Chen

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