AI disclosure
How Jim generates answers
Understanding Cancer uses an AI system called Jim. This page explains how Jim works and where its limits are.
This page is being finalised and may change. Last updated 2 November 2026.
Effective date: 2 November 2026. Operating entity: being finalised.
Jim is an AI system
Jim is the AI inside Understanding Cancer.
When you use Understanding Cancer, you are interacting with an AI system, not a person.
Every answer in the practitioner app starts its footnote with: "Jim is an AI and can make mistakes. Please check the answer before relying on it."
Where Jim's answers come from
Jim does not search the open internet to answer you.
Jim answers from Understanding Cancer's own curated, referenced knowledge base.
Clinicians review the notes in that knowledge base.
Every answer cites its sources.
Material based on our clinicians' practice experience is labelled as clinical experience, not trial evidence.
When the knowledge base doesn't cover a topic, Jim says so instead of guessing.
What Jim can get wrong
AI-generated text can contain errors. This includes wrong citations, and statements that sound confident but are wrong.
Check the sources before acting on an answer.
Use your own clinical judgement. Jim gives decision support. Jim does not make decisions.
What Jim is not
Jim's answers are education and decision support.
They are not medical advice to any patient. They are not prescriptions.
They are never a reason to stop or change a patient's conventional treatment.
Jim does not make automated decisions about people.
Further wording for this section is being finalised.
Who the answers are for
The practitioner app is for registered medical practitioners.
Dose and protocol detail unlocks only after a practitioner's registration is verified.
Patients and carers never see doses.
Understanding Cancer is for patients aged 18 and over only. It does not cover children or paediatric cancer.
How your questions are processed
Your question and the knowledge-base excerpts used to answer it are processed by our AI provider, Anthropic, through its commercial API.
Under the provider's commercial terms, this data is not used to train its models.
See the privacy policy for details.
Found a wrong or unsafe answer?
Use the Report button in the app. Reports go straight to our clinical team.
You can also e-mail support@understandingcancer.online.