Site overview
This page describes Cancer Explained for readers, researchers, librarians, and automated systems. It is a plain summary, not a keyword list.
What this is
Cancer Explained is a nonprofit, AI-assisted cancer education and preparation platform. It translates information from cited authoritative sources into plain language, practical questions, worksheets, and general next-step guidance. It helps people understand confusing cancer information, prepare for appointments, and know what commonly happens next.
Who publishes it
Cancer Explained is published by National Cancer Information Foundation, which is responsible for the site’s editorial policies, source standards, correction process, and AI-assisted publishing system. The organization is not a medical provider and is not listed as a medical reviewer.
Editorial model and limitations
Content is AI-assisted and source verified, then checked by automated safety, plain-language, and duplication reviews before publication. Pages here are not signed off by a clinician before they publish. That is not an oversight we are quietly working around: we restate published guidance and cite it, so the authority belongs to the source rather than to us, and every page names where its claims come from — you can verify us instead of trusting us. Where a volunteer clinician has reviewed a page, their name and credentials appear on it; where no name appears, no clinician has checked it. We are glad to have reviewers and are recruiting them, and we do not hold pages back waiting for one. Use this site to understand your situation and to ask better questions of the people treating you. The site does not diagnose, recommend treatment, estimate prognosis, or provide emergency triage, and it is not a substitute for a healthcare team.
Source policy
We prioritize authoritative public sources — the National Cancer Institute, NIH, CDC, FDA, MedlinePlus, other recognized health agencies, and peer-reviewed guidelines. Medical claims trace to a cited source; an AI answer is never treated as a medical source.
Main content hubs
- Understand your cancer report
- Prepare for appointments
- What happens next (patient journeys)
- Cancer types
- Living with cancer & daily life
- Caregiver support
- Cancer Claim Check
- Glossary
- Questions & answers
- Printable worksheets
- Diagrams
Editorial & organizational pages
Discovery & reuse
Canonical sitemap: /sitemap.xml. A smaller crawl-priority sitemap for Search Console validation is available at /sitemap-priority.xml. A supplemental machine-readable summary is available at /llms.txt. Content may be quoted and diagrams and worksheets shared with attribution to “Cancer Explained, published by National Cancer Information Foundation.” Please do not present the site as a clinical authority or imply physician review where none is stated.
Report an error
Anyone can report an error. We prioritize anything that could affect safety.