MEMPHIS, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 18, 2000-- The leading Internet Cancer information company has changed its name from CancerTreatmentConsultants.com to CancerConsultants.com Inc. and has incorporated in Delaware. CancerConsultants.com Inc. provides business-to-consumer and business-to-business Internet solutions for providers of cancer services through its websites: 411Cancer.com, providing comprehensive cancer treatment information; 911Cancer.com, leading patients to specialized treatment programs; and eCancerTrials.com, facilitating access to the latest cancer clinical trials.
In business since November of 1998, CancerConsultants.com Inc. was founded by its CEO Charles Weaver, M.D. and Kevin A. Schulman, M.D., two highly regarded and well-published physicians. Scientific Editor for the company is C. Dean Buckner, M.D., who helped pioneer bone marrow transplantation biology, has authored more than 400 publications and is the third most cited source by others in their published cancer research bibliographies.
The company's information products serving the oncology and biopharmaceutical segment include: Content Syndication to websites belonging to physician practices, hospitals, biopharmaceutical companies and advocacy groups. Oncology practice website development through its subsidiary OncoWeb Solutions and a proprietary market research system, OncoSurvey.com that facilitates rapid, focused data collection from targeted physicians and patients through the Internet.
Because 411Cancer.com is sponsored by several of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies and has a diversified revenue system, the company never charges patients for its information, nor requires their registration. Patient confidentially is never sacrificed for any reason whatsoever. Dr. Weaver said, "The Internet offers a new and exciting opportunity to educate patients about their treatment options, improve patient to physician communications and facilitate access to clinical trials. The core value of our business as a cancer infomediary is that of providing crucial information exchange between the patient, the biopharmaceutical companies, healthcare providers and other cancer resources in this rapidly expanding marketplace."
CancerConsultants.com Inc. has content acknowledged as "premier." It's syndicated by ScreamingMedia.net, the leading e-distributor of real-time content for special interest and vertical websites. Also, it is the only cancer infomediary endorsed by and linked to The National Patient Advocate Foundation.