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Legal Disclaimer

The information in Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center's website is not intended as a substitute for medical professional help or advice but is to be used only as an aid in understanding current medical knowledge. A physician should always be consulted for any health problem or medical condition. Inquiries about the contents of our website should be addressed to the contact information located herein. Our website provides links to other organizations as a service to our users; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center is not responsible for the information provided in other websites.

Privacy Notice

Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center collects certain forms of information through standard Web logs for the purpose of site management. Of the information we learn about you from your visit to our websites we store only the following: the IP address from which you access the Internet, the date, your web browser version, terms entered into our search engine, and the Internet address of the web site that referred you to our site. This information is used to measure the number of visitors to the various sections of our site and to help us make our site more useful. Unless it is specifically stated otherwise, no additional information will be collected about you. Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no attempt is made to identify individual users or usage patterns. We do not give, share, sell or transfer any personal information to a third party.

When inquiries are emailed to us, we store the question and the email address information so that we may respond electronically. Unless otherwise required by statute, we do not identify publicly who sends questions or comments to our web site. We will not obtain information that will allow us to personally identify you when you visit our site, unless you chose to provide such information to us. We do not forward your mail nor do we collect your name and e-mail address for any purpose other than to respond to your query.

Email requesting software support may be seen by a number of people who are responsible for answering questions. Be aware that email is not secure against interception. Therefore, if your communication contains sensitive or personal information, you should send it by postal mail.