Table 3.

Information and advice themes

Theme Number	Themes and Subthemes*	Number of Lists †
1.1	Specific treatments	10
	Case histories	10
	Treatment types	9
	Factors to consider in making treatment decisions	9
1.2	Communicating with health care providers to obtain good care	9
	Communication factors that could affect quality of care	7
	Strategies for obtaining good cancer care	5
1.3	Problem management strategies	8
	Using the Internet for due diligence	8
	Using the Internet to get good cancer care and social support	4
1.4	Coping with cancer recurrence	6
	Coping with risk of recurrence	5
	Living with relapses	3

^*To be selected as a major theme (in bold), a given topic had to be discussed in at least three messages in a majority of the 10 lists. To be included as a subtheme, a topic had to be discussed in at least three groups.

^†Numbers of discussion subthemes in lists do not necessarily equal the total number of mailing lists in the major theme. These counts represent the union of the set of all mailing lists in which messages addressed some aspect of the major theme, while subtheme occurrences may only have been found in a subset of the mailing lists.