The Robert Ryan Cancer Protocol Turing Friends From Helpless to Helpful

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A diagnosis of cancer is frightening and shocking, and often leaves a person reeling with confusion, panic and a feeling of helplessness. You want to run somewhere and pretend it is not happening. You want to tell someone, but then you may be initially embarrassed to tell anyone. You wonder what you did to cause this, and what you could have done to prevent it. In the first awful days of fear and anxiety you wonder what to do, where to go, and whom to trust.

A cancer patient often does not know how to tell family and friends about the diagnosis, or how much to tell. By the same token, friends and loved ones do not always know how to react or what to say, and in not knowing, may say or do the wrong thing. Sometimes the people you want to talk with do not come around anymore, because they do not know what to do or say. You may need help, but you do not want to ask, because you fear you will become a burden to others. This is a road that you have not been down before, and you do not really know where it is going.

Cancer Support Network Online

Thankfully, someone thought this all through before you needed help. The Robert Ryan Cancer Protocol turning friends and family from helpless to helpful, has created a method of increasing survival by improving the quality of life, and turning cancer patients into cancer survivors. Help is available through setting up an online social support network with a coordinator at the hub, the patient communicating need, and friends and family offering whatever level of help and time they are able to contribute, in order to meet the need.

With this ingenious protocol at work, everyone will know exactly what needs to be done, and who is going to do it. A person battling cancer needs to focus all of his or her energy on getting well. With the right support network in place, that is exactly what he or she will be able to do. There will be a feeling of being buoyed up and carried through the ordeal by being part of a group who are all bound together by a cause, and pulling in the same direction.

Recent studies have proved that people who have a strong support system in place have much better results in fighting cancer, no matter what kind of treatment they undergo. Using caused-based social support networks is a fine method of increasing the quality of life, for people fighting cancer, and actually may extend their life. Having the program coordinated online has another advantage, in that the patient does not have to travel, or physically attend meetings or group discussions. Even though group support is beneficial, when people are not feeling well both from the disease and from treatments, going to one more appointment can work a hardship on the person. Accessing the help needed from the comforts of home is an enormous asset.

Stress-Free System

The Robert Ryan Cancer Protocol turning friends and family from helpless to helpful is offered in 15 modules in which the patient can request help with topics such as organizing support, organizing finances–how to find help
from Government programs and getting insurance companies to pay claims–researching medication, researching the disease, considering different treatment options, and preparing for treatment.

For the patient it is an easy stress-free system by which to communicate with his or her support network and convey exactly what is desired in the way of help. For the volunteers, family and friends, it is a way to give real and meaningful help that will be welcomed because it has already been clearly requested. This takes the burden off everyone involved, with no-one being overwhelmed or under-used.

No individual fighting cancer should be thought of or treated as “the cancer patient.” He or she is the same person you always knew, who now happens to have cancer. While the person is on the road to recovery, help him or her to accept all the help that is offered, without feeling guilty or that they are “imposing” on anyone. That is how the Robert Ryan Cancer Protocol directs patients–from accepting that they have the disease, through getting the support they need so that they can focus on getting well, and then when they are recovered, to help someone else and become what their support group was for them–help for today, hope for the future.