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Mission

“Our mission is to improve cancer care through the dissemination of up-to-date and accurate educational programming and information for healthcare professionals, cancer patients and their family members”

Better Patient Care through Education

In the rapidly evolving field of oncology, access to timely information is critical to ensuring consistent, high-quality patient care. Misdiagnosis and mistreatment are commonly the result of lack of information. Traditional forms of educating professionals and patients are cumbersome, time-consuming and dated.

CancerEducation.com is dedicated to providing the global community of oncology professionals and their patients access to the latest advances in treatment modalities and diagnostic procedures. By harnessing the incredible, far-reaching power of the Internet, CancerEducation.com can make such information available as never before possible: interactive, timely, on-demand and convenient.

By partnering with thought leaders in the oncology profession, major medical centers, government agencies, charitable organizations and patient advocacy groups, CancerEducation.com is able to leverage such individuals and such institutions vast knowledge and resources to provide the best cancer-related educational content available on the Internet from prevention strategies and diagnostic procedures to new treatment options and advice on how to cope with their disease.

Resources and Tools for Professionals and Patients

In addition to being a source of quality educational programming, CancerEducation.com also serves as a cancer-focused portal to Internet resources and tools on the World Wide Web. As such, CancerEducation.com provides the tools necessary to assist the healthcare professional in delivering consistent high quality patient care and which assist the oncology patient in their quest for credible and practical information about their disease.

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The Site

CancerEducation.com is divided into two main areas: the Patient & Family center and the Professional center. Each of the centers is open to both professionals and patients, however, materials contained within each center have been specifically designed taking into consideration the needs and concerns of each group.

Unique Educational Content

The focal point of each of the Patient & Family and Professional centers is CancerEducation.comís unique educational programming. The educational content highlightís include:

Resources and Tools for Patients and Family

Designed specifically with the needs of the patient and their family and friends in mind, the Patient & Family center is organized according to cancer type. Educational content is supported by on-site resources and tools as well as a dynamic portal to high-quality and credible information available on the Internet, featuring:

  • Comprehensive coverage of over 20 cancer types
  • On-site resources such as Merriam Webster® Medical Dictionary, Physician and Cancer Treatment Center directories and a clinical trials directory
  • Pre-screening of off-site links by our content coordinators for credibility and pertinence
  • User-friendly format which is easy to navigate
  • Continuous review and updating
 Resources and Tools for Professionals

To support our professionally-focused educational content, CancerEducation.com has compiled a vast suite of on-line resources and tools generally referred to by oncology professionals in their day-to-day practices. Such resources include:

  • The Physicians Desk Reference®
  • MedLine®
  • On-line Medical Journals
  • Medical Conference Schedule
  • Treatment Guidelines
  • Clinical Trials Search Engine
In addition to the centers described above, CancerEducation.com offers the following value added services:

Disease-specific, moderated Online Message Boards for professionals and patients and their families and friends in an effort to provide a forum where questions of a medical or personal nature can be asked and answered.

An e-mail notification service to inform members of new educational programs, news stories and other items of interest based on pre-designated preferences as well as other site additions to CancerEducation.com.

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Medical Advisors

Name Affiliation
Frederick R. Appelbaum, M.D. Director, Division of Clinical Research
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Clara D. Bloomfield, M.D. Director, Comprehensive Cancer Center
The Ohio State University
Gabriel N. Hortobagyi, M.D., F.A.C.P Professor & Chairman, Department of Breast Medical Oncology
M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Marc E. Lippman, M.D. Director
Lombardi Cancer Center
Georgetown University
Scott M. Lippman, M.D. Chair, Department of Clinical Cancer Prevention
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
The University of Texas
Robert J. Mayer, M.D. Vice Chair for Academic Affairs Department of Adult Oncology
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard University
George Wilding, M.D. Professor of Medicine
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinic

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Last Updated: June 05, 2004
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