Cancer Patients Receive Interactive Decision Making ToolsAmerican Cancer Society NexCuraTM, Inc. announced today it has secured an agreement with the American Cancer Society, the nation's largest voluntary health organization, to "embed" its Cancer ProfilerTM interactive, health care decision-support tools on the Society's web site, www.cancer.org. The agreement will allow visitors to www.cancer.org to access Cancer Profilers for breast, colorectal, prostate and several other cancers.  "The agreement between the American Cancer Society and NexCura represents a technological breakthrough that will help us assist individual cancer patients and survivors with accurate, personalized treatment information that is relevant to their individual situations," said Harmon J. Eyre, MD, the Society's national chief medical officer. "The Cancer Profilers will directly further the mission of the Society to empower cancer patients and survivors in the fight against America's number one personal health concern." Through NexCura's Cancer Profilers, cancer patients and survivors are connected with extensive databases of significant clinical studies. The Cancer Profilers generate unbiased, objective information tailored to patients' individual medical situations and concerns, including full disclosure of treatment options for their specific disease states. The Cancer Profilers also report risk tolerances, potential side effects, questions patients can ask their physicians and possible treatment outcomes based on group survival statistics. The information can be printed to discuss with family members or to support the patient-physician dialogue.
Each Cancer Profiler will be accessed on www.cancer.org through the site's Cancer Resource Centers for that form of the disease. NexCura has developed Cancer Profilers for bladder, breast, cervical, colorectal, melanoma, ovarian, prostate and uterine cancer. Two advisory bodies have played key roles in the development and refinement of NexCura's Cancer Profilers and online services, including a Medical Editorial Board of prominent cancer experts who apply stringent medical standards to select the medical studies used in the company's database. The National Consumer Advisory Council includes representatives of some of the nation's leading cancer patient organizations. About the American Cancer Society The American Cancer Society is the nationwide community-based voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives and diminishing suffering from cancer, through research, education, advocacy and service. For information about cancer, call toll-free anytime 1-800-ACS-2345 or visit the American Cancer Society website at www.cancer.org. About NexCura™, Inc. NexCura, Inc. is a leading business-to-business and business-to-consumer integrated eCare company that uses its proprietary technology applications on the Internet to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery. As demonstrated at www.cancerfacts.com, NexCura helps physicians, patients and their families obtain personalized medical information to make intelligent treatment decisions. NexCura's tools are made available through an application service provider (ASP) model on Web sites of leading healthcare organizations and are utilized by thousands of patients and physicians daily.
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