Editorial Policy
This page explains how MesotheliomaFeed researches, writes, reviews, updates, and corrects the educational content on this site, including where artificial intelligence tools are involved in that process.
Our Editorial Commitments
Use authoritative and relevant sources
Distinguish editorial from medical or legal review
Identify limitations and uncertainty
Correct material errors when identified
Disclose commercial relationships when relevant
Editorial Mission
MesotheliomaFeed exists to provide clear, accurate, and accessible information about mesothelioma, asbestos exposure, diagnosis, treatment, and related legal and financial resources. Our goal is to help patients, caregivers, and families understand complex medical and legal topics so they can have more informed conversations with their own doctors, attorneys, and support networks.
How MesotheliomaFeed Creates Content
Articles and pages are researched and drafted using a combination of published medical literature, government and nonprofit health resources, legal reference materials, and editorial review, organized around the questions patients and families actually have.
Topic selection
Content is organized around specific patient and family questions.
Research
Published medical literature, government resources, and legal references are gathered.
Drafting
Content is written to be understandable without requiring a medical or legal background.
Updates
Pages are revisited over time as information changes.
Editorial review
Reviewed for clarity, sourcing, and internal consistency.
Fact checking
Claims and statistics are checked against the sources referenced during research.
How We Select Sources
We prioritize information from peer-reviewed medical literature, government health agencies, established cancer and asbestos-disease organizations, and primary legal sources such as statutes and court records. We avoid relying on promotional or unverified sources for medical or legal claims.
Primary Sources
Government health agencies, primary legal sources such as statutes and court records, and peer-reviewed original research.
Established Institutions
Recognized cancer and asbestos-disease organizations, and other established medical and legal institutions.
Supporting Context
Clearly identified institutional and nonprofit publications used for supporting context.
We are continuing to review older content against these standards; not every legacy article on the site has been confirmed to meet them yet.
Writing for Clarity and Responsibility
Content is written to be understandable without requiring a medical or legal background, while preserving the accuracy of the underlying sources. Factual claims, statistics, and medical or legal statements are checked against the sources referenced during content creation before publication.
- Explain technical terms in plain language
- Avoid unnecessary jargon
- Distinguish established evidence from uncertainty
- Avoid guarantees of outcomes
- Avoid sensational language
- Preserve the original context of a source
- Avoid personalized medical or legal advice
Editorial, Medical and Legal Review
Our goal is for medical content to be reviewed by qualified professionals with relevant clinical or research experience, and for the reviewer’s credentials and review date to be noted on any page that has undergone this process. Applying this consistently across all content is an ongoing goal rather than a completed state. Readers should treat any page without a noted review as general educational information.
Editorial Review
- Structure and clarity
- Source quality and links
- Internal consistency and formatting
Medical Review
- Performed only when a qualified clinician genuinely reviews a page
- The reviewer’s credentials are noted when this occurs
- Not every page is medically reviewed
Legal Review
- Performed only when a qualified legal professional genuinely reviews legal content
- Legal information is general and jurisdiction-dependent
- Not every legal-information page has legal review
Accuracy, Uncertainty and Changing Information
Medical and legal information changes over time. Official program pages may be updated, and laws and benefits rules may vary or change. No publication, including this one, can guarantee permanent completeness — important individual decisions require current professional or official guidance.
How Content Is Updated
We periodically review existing content for accuracy and update pages when we identify outdated or incorrect information. A page’s modified date is intended to reflect a substantive update, not to make a page appear newer than it is.
Topic-based review when appropriate
Updates when reliable information materially changes
Corrections based on verified reader or editorial feedback
Corrections
Found an error or outdated reference?
Readers may report factual errors, broken links, outdated sources, unclear wording, or accessibility problems. We review every correction request and update content when a reported error is confirmed. Please identify the page URL and the specific statement or issue when possible.
Editorial Independence and Commercial Transparency
Editorial Decisions
MesotheliomaFeed is an independent informational publisher. We are not a law firm, medical practice, or treatment provider. Editorial decisions about what to cover and how to present it are made through our editorial process, not by any advertiser, partner, or referral relationship. If a specific conflict of interest applies to a page, we disclose it on that page.
Commercial Relationships
This site may display advertising to help support the cost of producing free information. Advertising does not influence which medical or legal information we present or how we present it. Editorial content decisions are made independently of any advertising arrangement.
Use of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence tools may assist in drafting, organizing research, formatting, and editing content on this site. AI-assisted output is treated as a starting point, not a final product: medical and legal claims are checked against the sources described in this policy, and AI-assisted text is reviewed and edited through our editorial process before publication. AI tools are not used as a substitute for human verification of medical or legal accuracy.
Authors, Contributors and Reviewers
We do not publish fabricated author or reviewer biographies. Where a specific individual’s credentials are cited on a page, those credentials reflect that person’s actual, verifiable background. We are continuing to build out named authorship and review across our content library.
Editorial Team
Researches, writes, edits and updates general content.
Named Author
Receives a byline only when the contribution is verified.
Medical Reviewer
Identified only after a genuine clinical review.
Legal Reviewer
Identified only after a genuine jurisdiction-appropriate review.
Reader Feedback
Readers who notice an error, an outdated statistic, or missing context are encouraged to contact us regarding errors, outdated sources, unclear wording, accessibility, navigation problems, or responsible content suggestions. We review every submission and update content when a reported issue is confirmed. We cannot guarantee a specific response time, but every message is read by our editorial team. This channel is not for emergencies, individualized diagnoses, medical-record submissions, or confidential legal communications.
Responsible Information Requires a Transparent Process
MesotheliomaFeed aims to make complex medical, practical and compensation-related information easier to understand while clearly identifying the limits of general educational content.