Abandoning Dr Google?

We each have to deal with a cancer diagnosis in our own way.  The BBC offers one such way:

When a cancer diagnosis is given, the first impulse is to get as much information as possible on the disease. But does a frantic Google search do more harm than good?

You could go Google cold turkey, as Emma Agnew and her husband - the BBC's cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew - chose to when she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Talking to the BBC podcast You, Me and the Big C, the sport commentator said he and his wife made a deal not to look anything up on the internet.

Explaining their decision he said: "There is so much stuff out there that you can't even begin to understand."

"And there's so much rubbish," he added.

"We just went to our people and they looked after her and that was it."

I choose to disagree.  First, in my experience, the medics - doubtless from the most admirable of motives - only tell you what they think you need to know - which may be radically different from what you actually want to know.  Second, there are some useful and reliable websites out there.  I found both www.nhs.uk and www.macmillan.org.uk particularly helpful.