Affiliate Disclosure

Effective Date: April 20, 2026

What this page covers

CancerDrs is an educational data aggregator and patient-navigation resource operated by MiniGig LLC. Most of what we publish is editorial: aggregated federal data (ClinicalTrials.gov, the CMS NPI Registry, CMS Open Payments, NCI, SEER, FDA), original patient guides, and a plain-English glossary. None of that content is monetized through affiliate or referral relationships.

A small, separate subset of consumer-decision content on the Site may include affiliate links to third-party services that we believe are genuinely useful to patients and caregivers. This page explains how we handle those.

What an affiliate link is

An affiliate link is a link to a third-party service that, if you sign up or purchase through it, may pay MiniGig LLC a commission or referral fee. The price you pay is not increased by the affiliate relationship.

How we disclose affiliate links

Per-page disclosure. Any page that contains an affiliate link carries a clear, conspicuous disclosure on that same page, in proximity to the link itself. This is the standard set by the FTC's Endorsement Guides (16 C.F.R. Part 255) and the FTC's .com Disclosures guidance.
Pages without affiliate links carry no affiliate disclosure. We do not claim affiliate relationships on pages that have none. Most of the Site — every directory page, every transparency page, every glossary entry, and the great majority of patient guides — contains no affiliate links and no affiliate disclosure.
No hidden monetization. We do not use undisclosed affiliate links, cloaked URLs, or referral codes embedded into otherwise editorial content.

What affiliate placement does not affect

Federal data we republish. Trial listings, oncologist directory entries, NCI-designation status, CMS Hospital Compare metrics, SEER statistics, and CMS Open Payments figures are republished from federal sources without modification. Affiliate relationships do not change which records appear, how figures are totaled, or how they are displayed.
Editorial coverage. Whether a topic gets a guide, which sources we cite, and what we conclude are independent of any affiliate relationship. We have declined affiliate offers from services we did not believe served patients well, and we will continue to.
Physician payment transparency pages. CMS Open Payments republication is editorial, never commercial. Affiliate relationships have no role in selection, totaling, or display of physician-payment data. Sponsorship of the Site, separately, does not alter transparency display either — see our Editorial Policy and Terms of Service §9 for the full posture.

Categories of services we may affiliate with

Where affiliate placements appear, they are limited to consumer-service categories that complement — rather than overlap with — our editorial content. Typical categories include:

Medical-records retrieval and consolidation services.
Insurance-appeal and patient-advocacy tools.
Life, disability, and supplemental health insurance comparison.
Estate-planning and legal-services platforms relevant to a serious diagnosis.

We do not affiliate with: clinical-trial enrollment services, oncology practices, hospitals, drug or device manufacturers, second-opinion clinical services that we describe editorially, or any service that would create a conflict with the federal-data republication on the Site.

Anti-Kickback Statute and federal-program patients

No affiliate relationship on the Site is structured to refer, induce, or reward referrals for items or services reimbursable by a federal healthcare program (Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, VA). Where federal healthcare program patients might engage with an affiliated service, the arrangement is structured to fall within the safe harbor for referral services at 42 C.F.R. § 1001.952(f) (flat-fee, not per-conversion; patient-friendly disclosure; no exclusivity), or is excluded from reimbursable pathways. See Terms §9 and §10 and our Editorial Policy.

FTC compliance posture

Our affiliate-disclosure practice is designed to satisfy the FTC's Endorsement Guides as updated in 2023, including the requirement that material connections be disclosed clearly and conspicuously, on the same page as the recommendation, near the link itself. A general sitewide footer notice — without per-page proximate disclosure — is not, in our reading, sufficient. We use per-page disclosure on pages that carry affiliate links, and we omit affiliate-disclosure language from pages that do not.

Questions, errors, or removals

If you spot what looks like an undisclosed affiliate link on the Site, or you have a question about a specific service we link to, email [email protected]. We will investigate and, where appropriate, add or correct the disclosure.