MD Anderson Proton Therapy Center

Community Guidelines

The MD Anderson Proton Therapy Center wants to provide a friendly, informative and engaging community for our Facebook followers, and we encourage you to comment and share your opinions and stories.

To maintain this supportive and courteous environment, MD Anderson actively monitors participation and reserves the right to remove the following types of comments and posts:

• Profane language or content
• Content that violates the privacy of our patients and their families and caregivers
• Personal attacks on individuals or specific groups
• Content that discriminates based on race, creed, age, color, religion, gender, marital status, national origin, income level, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation or any other form of discrimination
• Sexual content or links to sexual content
• Links to products and services that MD Anderson does not offer or endorse
• Content or encouragement of illegal, harmful or offensive activity
• Content for the purposes of promoting a competitor or competitive product
• Content that is inappropriate, in poor taste or otherwise contrary to MD Anderson’s core values and the purposes of this forum, in the sole discretion of MD Anderson Cancer Center.

The information we share on Facebook and our other social media channels — including Twitter and YouTube pages — shouldn’t be considered medical advice. Please discuss all specific medical questions and concerns with your personal health care provider.

Keep in mind that once you post something online, it may be read by thousands of others in our online community and beyond.

Therefore, we encourage you to use caution when sharing medical information or other personal information on our Facebook page or any of our other social media sites. For your own privacy and protection, we encourage you not to share information such as your medical record number, financial information or any other information that you and/or your friends and relatives would not want strangers to know.