NEW YORK, N.Y., March 06, 2000 - Click and listen to news updates in the world of cancer. CancerEducation.com, the Web's preeminent site for oncology professionals and cancer patients and their families and friends, has launched an audio news service that covers the oncology events of the day.

The service, which promises timeliness and journalistic verve, aims to provide perspective for patients -- and their doctors -- on clinical developments in cancer that may bubble over excessively on the front pages and on the nightly news. The audio news service is available round the clock by clicking on cancer news at www.cancereducation.com. Each report is approximately two minutes in length.

The independent cancer news is reported and produced by a team with vast experience in the field--oncologist Richard Lutes, who is CancerEducation.com's chief medical officer, and veteran medical journalist Mark Bloom, the site's editor-in-chief, who recently joined CancerEducation.com. Bloom came to CancerEducation.com with 30 years of experience in medical and science journalism, serving as editor-in-chief of Physician's Weekly for the past 15 years.

"With these brief audio spots, we are breaking ground on reporting cancer news for consumers on the Internet," said Michael Weiss, CEO of CancerEducation.com. "They are easy to absorb for our site visitors -- cancer patients and their families and friends -- yet they provide the pertinent information with the proper perspective."

The Lutes-Bloom duo will be on hand at major cancer meetings to report directly on breaking stories. They will also digest, assimilate, and interpret significant cancer news emerging from the major specialty and general-interest medical journals.

Dr. Marc E. Lippman, director of the Lombardi Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center, said he is impressed by how "the wealth of technical data in complicated cancer studies is translated by this reporting team into such valuable news that is so succinct and so cogent." Dr. Lippman is chairman of CancerEducation.com's oncology advisory board. "They make it sound easy, but it isn't.

CancerEducation.com, a member of the MedClips.com Network, is a novel Web site dedicated to providing the global community of oncology professionals and cancer patients and their families and friends direct access to the latest advances in cancer treatments and diagnostic procedures. The site, www.cancereducation.com provides critical and highly credible information about more than 20 forms of cancer, primarily in an audio/video format that is interactive, timely and convenient. CancerEducation.com is positioning itself as the leading provider of cancer-related health and medical information with a particular expertise in multi-media video content. Additional resources found within CancerEducation.com include a medical dictionary, daily news feed and a drug information database.

It's audio cancer news at www.cancereducation.com. Hear timely reports produced by the Lutes-Bloom duo, a nonpareil team. For further information on CancerEducation.com, please contact Lauren Fischer at 212-727-0598 (lfischer@cancereducation.com) or Lee Allentuck at 202/828-9705 (allentul@fleishman.com).

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