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If you or someone you love is dealing with cancer, you need trustworthy information about the disease and what to expect as you go through treatment. You also need a way to communicate about your cancer with family and friends. The American Cancer Society's Circle of Sharing can help.

When you create your own Circle of Sharing, you'll enter details about your situation -- your cancer type, the treatments and medicines you've been taking, and side effects you're having. The tool will show you helpful American Cancer Society information about those topics. You'll also get general information about coping with cancer, inspiring stories of survival, treatment decision tools, and a database of local resources like support groups or services.

You can invite family and friends to become members of your Circle. As members, they'll be able to see any of the personalized information you choose to share with them, as well as the resource finder, survivor stories, and the general information links. You can communicate with members of your circle through a secure email function included in the tool.

Circle of Sharing is powered by HealthVault, and the personal medical information you provide is stored securely on HealthVault servers.