Mission Statement
The Melanoma Patients'
Information Page (MPIP) is a noncommercial site founded to provide
support and information to melanoma patients and those who care for
them.
It is our desire
to provide patients with the latest high-quality information from
reputable sources and the tools to decipher and organize that information.
The MPIP is founded on the belief that proactive patients who educate
themselves to take an active role in decisions regarding their therapy
can effect their outcome in a positive way.
In addition,
the MPIP provides various forums to allow patients to interact with
other patients to provide support and share experiences and resources.
All services
provided by the MPIP are free to all users.
History
of the MPIP
In the fall of
1995, my wife's sister Cindy
was diagnosed with recurrent nodular melanoma, the result of a misdiagnosed
mole that had been removed but not biopsied some years earlier.
The MPIP started as a way of sharing the information I had uncovered
on the web with my far-flung family. Before long I was getting e-mail
from other people who had found it through one of the search engines
asking for more information. I realized that a need existed for
a site to organize the vast amount of information available and
the MPIP was the result.
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Privacy
Statement
Users can be
assured that their privacy will respected while on this site. No
user information of any kind, including e-mail addresses, will be
released to any third party without the expressed written consent
of the user. Note: Posting of e-mail addresses on the MPIP bulletin
board indicates willingness by the user to be contacted by e-mail
by other patients. Posting of e-mail addresses on the bulletin
board is optional.
Use of this
site to obtain user e-mail addresses for the purpose of solicitation
is expressly forbidden and may constitute a violation of applicable
laws. Users who feel their e-mail address posted here have been
used in violation of the above policy are urged to
contact MPIP.
Statistics
about total site and page usage are compiled but the MPIP does not
track individual users as to pages accessed while on this site.
Cookies
Cookies are
small bits of information accessible to the programs used by the
site and stored on the users hard drive. The MPIP uses cookies only
to record user preferences and for certain security purposes. No
user information is recorded and no cookie information will be released
to any third party under any circumstance.
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Disclaimer
The Melanoma Patients' Information Page is provided as an information
service only. Information contained herein does not constitute medical
advice and is in no way warranted by the provider to be complete
or accurate. The provider of this page is not a medical professional
and can make no judgment about and is not responsibility for the
accuracy and/or completeness of the information contained herein.
All medical information should be discussed with your physician.
Users of this website agree to hold the provider, Melanoma Information
Services, harmless for any liability for any claims and expenses,
including reasonable attorney's fees, relating to or resulting from
use of this site.
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Contacting
the MPIP
The Pattersons
P.O. Box 389
Cloverdale, CA 95425
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