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Answers.com's WikiAnswers Supervisors Rallying for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
Personal Experiences and Advice Shared Through Dynamic WikiAnswers Q&A Community
NEW YORK, October 22 /PRNewswire/ -- In a show of support for National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Answers.com's question and answer community, WikiAnswers(TM), is spotlighting its section on Breast Cancer (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/FAQ/2375), where breast cancer survivors, friends and family have gathered to ask questions and share their personal experiences and advice.
"It's comforting to know that WikiAnswers offers a pressure-free community where those touched by this disease can ask questions and receive a personal response, rather than reading prewritten FAQs. It's the human element that makes all the difference," commented Crystal Williams, Community Coordinator for WikiAnswers. "Our volunteer Supervisors diligently organize and edit material to make this endeavor possible."
Answers.com's WikiAnswers is a wiki (http://www.answers.com/topic/wiki?cat=technology) -based website that is constantly improving, through the efforts of its dedicated question and answer community. It is the user generated content (UGC) component of Answers.com, where visitors share what they know and ask about what they don't. Wiki Q&As are 'living' documents, where answers are constantly being improved and updated over time. This ensures that no identical answer is developed in parallel, and that good answers can become great answers over time. A single Q&A, in this case those focusing on the important issue of breast cancer, can help thousands of people. Take for example: "What are the best treatment options for breast cancer?" With new medical developments happening at any given moment, a static FAQ can become outdated quickly, while a wiki Q&A can be changed as soon as new treatments are announced - in real-time.
WikiAnswers member "Mareibc" took advantage of this format when she improved the answer to: "What is inflammatory breast cancer?" explaining that "Although this type of breast cancer is aggressive, and frightening, if you know the symptoms and are treated immediately, yes, you can be an IBC survivor!"
Offline, Mareibc is an advocate for breast cancer awareness and one of the founding members of the Inflammatory Breast Cancer Research Foundation, which was first established online as an answer resource. "People writing in their own questions and answers made many people aware of inflammatory breast cancer all over the world. This same dynamic is what makes WikiAnswers ...
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