Coping With Hope
Dedicated to helping people better cope with Cancer
through education, information, and outreach
Written Materials & Medical Basis of Fact
Coping With Hope is dedicated to helping people better cope with Cancer through education, information, and outreach.
Our target audience is persons who are dealing with Cancer along with their appropriate support systems, to include, but not be limited to; family, friends, associates, and employers.
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Coping With Hope is a not for profit organization dedicated to helping people better cope with Cancer. Both the organization, and its web sites, are content controlled by an Advisory Board of Directors all of whom have strong faith filled backgrounds. The Advisors are:
Randy P. Ely (webmaster of http://copingwithhope.com)
Mansfield, Texas
Suzette Rogers
Mansfield, Texas
Linda Pearson
Mansfield, Texas
Stacy Rountree
Mansfield, Texas
Bruce Rountree
Mansfield, Texas
Coping With Hope was developed by a 12 year Cancer Survivor and her Caregiver spouse. Since her initial diagnosis with Breast Cancer in 1996, to her subsequent bout with Secondary Breast Cancer of the Bone in 2004, and until her eventual death in 2008, this couple has found a large amount of information aimed at the medical side of the disease. However, they have found that materials dealing with the spiritual and emotional side of the struggle with Cancer have been lacking. After much prayer, and completion of a church sponsored 40 Days of Purpose program, Coping With Hope was born.
At Coping With Hope, written materials represent the sole opinions of the authors and contributors to this site who are not legally licensed, or medically qualified medical practitioners. When materials are presented by those in the medical community they will be accompanied by relevant source information to include, but not be limited to; author, date, medical training (if available), source, and/or link if appropriate.
Back to top of the pageAll direct information provided at Coping With Hope is designed to supplement, not replace, the relationship that exists between a person and his/her existing physician'(s). opinions and written materials expressed at Coping With Hope are those of the author and of other contributors to the site and can not be intended as a substitute for sound medical advice/treatment.
Coping With Hope makes no warranties expressed or implied as to the applicability of materials to any person's given situation. As a condition of reviewing this site, all visitors acknowledge that they do so at their own risk and that they alone are personally responsible for how they chose to utilize the information contained on each page of the site.
Coping With Hope has no control over an end users computer and can not be responsible for damages or loss of data that may occur while visiting this site.
While Coping With Hope strives to maintain adequate backup controls at its web server, mishaps do occur on the Internet and as a result, Coping With Hope can not be responsible for data that is lost on this web site and/or its Cancer Forum. Visitors are strongly encouraged to maintain copies of any responses at the forum, books, or Cancer links, they wish to keep for an extended period of time.
While Coping With Hope is a faith based web site, nothing on its pages should be construed as a guarantee that if one becomes a Christian they will be free from pain and/or death associated with Cancer.
Coping With Hope is dedicated to respecting the Right of Privacy of all persons who visit this site. We attempt, as closely as possible, to follow rules as established by the State of Texas Department of Information Resources, even though we are not a governmental agency. As such, the following general Privacy Policy is in effect as of January 25, 2005.
For site management functions, information is collected by our server host Lunarpages and available for viewing by the webmasters of this site. This information is collected for analysis and/or statistical purposes only in order to determine how to make this site more user friendly and is not provided to any outside source unless we are compelled to do so legally in conjunction with law enforcement investigations or other legal proceedings.
Information gathered by the server is not reported or used in any manner so as to reveal the private identity of those participants who visit the site, unless we are compelled to do so legally in conjunction with law enforcement investigations or other legal proceedings.
We use c-panel web log tools in order to create web site traffic reports and to determine those features our guests use in order to improve our overall site usability. Again, none of this information is shared with any other resource unless we are legally compelled to do so in conjunction with law enforcement investigations or other legal proceedings.
Cancer Forum utilizes a registration feature which may ask you to supply an email address. No email addresses are ever provided to outside sources unless we are legally compelled to do so in conjunction with law enforcement investigations or other legal proceedings. Participants acknowledge that their email addresses are readily available to other members who visit the forum and that they may receive e-mails or other instant messages from other users visiting the site. Participants in the Forum acknowledge that they have the right to opt out of having their email address and other personal information displayed through options in their user profile, should they desire to do so.
Persons who have registered and utilize the Cancer Forum should be cautioned to avoid using overly identifiable information that would reveal to others confidential medical information which they would not want to have revealed. Coping With Hope respects all our visitors’ rights of privacy and will not reveal confidential medical information to disinterested third parties without the expressed written permission of the affected individual or upon being legally compelled to do so in conjunction with law enforcement investigations or other legal proceedings.
Cookies may be used in order to facilitate use of this site for our viewers. However, no cookies are used to trace or identify users of this site and no Web Bugs or Clear GIFs or used to track or report visitor information.
Coping With Hope may use e-mail addresses voluntarily provided by site visitors to notify them of updates, services, polls, and educational/informational opportunities. Site visitors who wish to no longer receive information in this manner may opt out of future notifications by emailing the administrator at the following e-mail address: copingwithhope@att.net
E-mail messages sent to and from a web site may not be secure. Visitors are discouraged from sending confidential information that they would not want to be intercepted. Coping With Hope can not be responsible for outside parties who unethically and/or illegally intercept messages without the consent of the webmasters and/or users.
Written Materials and Medical Basis of Fact
All written materials and opinions expressed at this website are clearly those of the author and other contributors who are not licensed or medically qualified experts in the field of medicine. When information is supplied from a medically qualified source it will be clearly delineated by author, date source, and link, if appropriate. Pages containing clinical information will be revised with dates of creation and last modification so as to clearly indicate to users the freshness of the materials.
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Coping With Hope does not support miracle cures, endorse benefits/performance of specific treatments/products, or services, unless clinically supported by the medical community. In those cases, relevant materials will be accompanied by the author, date, source, and link, if appropriate.
This endorsement clause shall in no way prevent visitors to this site from sharing information on treatments/products, and/or services so long as such practice is void of any commercial affiliation. Coping With Hope does not support or endorse commercial affiliation of treatments/products, and/or services in any manner, nor do we derive any portion of our funding from such services.
Coping With Hope is a not for profit organization completely run by volunteers.
Coping With Hope appears at various Cancer related events and provides an informative color brochure to Cancer Survivors and their families, spreading a message of hope that only Jesus Christ can bring . Obviously, in order to appear and to provide these brochures we incur expense. Additionally, there is an increasing economic burden that we incur in the area of software, development, and maintenance of this web site. Because we do not enjoy the economic support of being affiliated with a nationally recognized company and due to the fact we decided long ago not to accept advertising, all expenses have had to come out of our own pockets prior to our non-profit designation in June 2005. We have willingly done this as a symbol of our faith for what God has done in our lives. We will continue to do so for as long as we are able to. However, Coping With Hope would like to do more, but our present resources just won't allow us.
We hope that you have been blessed in some way by what you have seen at this web site. If so, would you please consider a monetary gift to help us continue this vital ministry. No person affiliated with Coping With Hope receives any monetary benefit from their service to the organization as they are all volunteers. As such, 100% of your assistance goes directly to supporting the mission of the organization, namely helping persons better cope with cancer.
Coping With Hope does not utilize advertising or solicit promotional materials in exchange for revenue. Furthermore, we do not accept pop-up or banner advertising so as to maintain the objectivity of the site. Should that policy ever change, Coping With Hope will clearly amend this portion of their policy and all materials that come under that category will be clearly marked for the discernment of our viewers.
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Coping With Hope provides our visitors with links to third party websites and resources as a convenience to our visitors. Coping With Hope, its board, web authors, and affiliates have no control over how these websites are maintained, nor can we endorse the materials contained therein. As such, Coping With Hope, its board, web authors, and affiliates are not responsible, directly or indirectly, for actions or damages which arise from, which are caused by, or occur in conjunction with the use of any such content, products, or services available through these referral links. Coping With Hope makes no warranties expressed or implied as to these sites and visitors are cautioned that they visit and use these sites at their own risk.
Coping With Hope also provides book referrals for the convenience of our audience. Coping With Hope has no control over these third party resources and their content and therefore, can make no warranty expressed or implied as to the worthiness of books read and recommended at this site. As such, Coping With Hope, its board, web authors, and affiliates are not responsible, directly or indirectly, for actions or damages which arise from, which are caused by, or occur in conjunction with the use of any such content, products, or services profiled in any of the books listed.
We wish to thank Familycaregiversonline.com and FreeFoto.com for the use of specific items on this web site.
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It is the policy of Coping With Hope to make its web site as accessible as possible to all persons with disabilities.
Should you find difficulty utilizing this web site based on your specific needs please email us at copingwithhope@att.net specifying the specific page or pages viewed and the exact nature of the difficulty along with the accommodation utilized. This will assist us in trying to identify how to improve upon the problem you are experiencing.
As always, we welcome any suggestions on how to make our site more accessible to our viewing audience.
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There are numerous contact points established throughout Coping With Hope in order for you to provide written contributions or seek further information. Should these be insufficient please contact our webmaster using the following:
Preferred contact method: email at copingwithhope@att.net
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