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Legal Disclaimer: The maintainers of this website have no medical qualifications and the information contained on this site is not intended to replace expert medical advice that you may be given. We do our best to ensure that any information we publish is accurate and strongly advise that any decisions about your treatment should be made after discussions with your oncologist or other suitably qualified medical professional. SPAGN is purely patient-run and are independent from pharmaceutical companies, medical institution or professional organisation. Before taking any legal action, please contact us - we are very confident we can solve any issue in both interests without the need for any legal steps.

Independence: SPAGN not affiliated to any pharmaceutical company, medical institution or professional organisation.

Links to third-party sites: The SPAGN website contains numerous links to third-party websites. Unless otherwise stated, these links are provided as other useful sources of information. No endorsement by SPAGN of any kind as to the content or quality of third-party websites is implied. SPAGN is not responsible for the contents any third-party website accessed through this site. If you decide to access third-party websites, you do so at your own risk.

Links from third-party sites: SPAGN is happy for other organisations to refer to the SPAGN website on their own website and to create hypertext links as appropriate.

Copyrights and use of content: SPAGN authorises you to view the content of this site solely for your personal, non-commercial use.  Content of third parties will be referenced. Unauthorised use of the content may violate copyright, trademark and other laws.

Privacy and data protection: Most areas on our website are accessible anonymously. SPAGN stores information of people authoring content on the website, which is required for copyright reasons. However, SPAGN does not pass on personal details to other people or organisations.

Advertising: No advertising is accepted on the SPAGN website.

Confidentiality: SPAGN honors the legal requirements of medical information privacy that apply in EU and globally. The SPAGN website is located in Germany, however has a global outreach.

Our Use of Artificial Intelligence: SPAGN may use artificial intelligence tools to support selected activities, such as drafting and editing text, translation, summarising information, research support and data analysis.

AI-assisted content is reviewed by the SPAGN team before publication. Where content includes medical or scientific information, relevant sources are checked and additional expert input may be sought where appropriate.

We are committed to using AI responsibly and with appropriate attention to privacy, confidentiality, accuracy and potential bias. SPAGN remains responsible for the content and decisions resulting from its use of AI.

Webmaster/Website Editor (responsible for the content of the website): Michaela Geissler