Site offers adolescents with cancer a place to connect.

By Misty Harris, Canwest News Service

It’s the most exclusive new social networking site in Canada, but membership isn’t something you want to earn.

Designed for youths with cancer, Teen Connector is a gated online community whose denizens can navigate a hospital the way others their age can a shopping mall.
Known as “the lost generation,” these teens have been largely overlooked in a system built around young children and adults but not those that fall in between.

The new site — a kind of Facebook for the chemo crowd — aims to fill that need, offering adolescents with cancer a place to connect.

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