About Cancer Information Center
Cancer Information Center is a professional group of scientists and medical experts who have joined with an informational team of web savvy experts to provide the best source of information on cancer on the web. We offer this to everyone afflicted with this disease and to their friends, family and loved ones.
Our families have asked us about different medical problems over the years. We have learned that most people cannot understand the medical language used by scientists and medical staff. Since it is your body, your life that is in trouble, not knowing what the experts are talking about makes your situation scary - and just being scared can have adverse health affects.
We really hope that you can learn what to do, how to get your health taken care of. Every medical expert, every psychologist we have told about this website- has told us they appreciate anything we can do to help reduce the fear you may be feeling and to make this disease more understandable.
Please let us know if anything does not make sense to you or is not helpful so that we can improve this for you and your family.
Cancer Information Center's panel of experts
Stephen Goldner, JD RAC
Steve is the President of Cancer Information Center, the company that has arranged this and other cancer organized web sites. He is a toxicologist and lawyer with almost 40 years experience in the medical field as inventor, developer and innovator of drugs and medical devices for people.
Susan Lewis, Ph.D, JD
Susan has over 25 years in the medical field, as researcher at NIH, investigator and program reviewer at FDA and developer of drugs to help people.
Jerry Lang, MD
Jerry has practiced medicine for almost 20 years and has an extensive research background in medical science.
Eugene Axelrod, MD, Ph.D., MBA
Eugene has practiced medicine for 30 years, and was a laboratory medical reviewer before that.
Steve Northcott, MS
Steve has 20 years experience in drug development and laboratory science.
Deborah Theres, BS, BS
Deborah has two degrees in medical science and 25 years experience.
Mike Tomasovich, BS
Mike has worked in this field for 5 years, with an expertise in communications and document organization.
Gretchen Rasmussen
Gretchen has worked in this field for 3 years but wanted for many years to provide medical information in a simple but effective delivery.
Mike Jones
Mike Jones is the web developer.
Ken Burnside
Ken Burnside is an award winning professional writer and game designer. He specializes in technical fields, particularly science and medical writing, where his aim is to bring complex subject matter to the widest possible audience.
Grace Palmer
Grace Palmer is a professional writer with expertise in multiple fields, including health and medical information. She specializes in explaining difficult information clearly and creating connections between the reader and the material.
Dr. Christine Traxler
Dr. Christine Traxler has been a family medical practitioner for over twenty years and has interests in many different medical areas, including emergency medicine and women's health. She has been a medical writer for eight years and writes on a variety of medical topics for the internet. She lives with her daughter and several pets in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Catherine H. Fincher BA
Catherine has personally assisted cancer patients and their families for three years. Now she uses her professional writing and management skills for our web sites.
