spb/cancerindex

1import type { Metadata } from 'next';2import Link from 'next/link';3import { PageHeader, Section } from '@/components/ui/section';45export const metadata: Metadata = { title: 'About', description: 'What CancerIndex is, who it is for, and what it refuses to do.' };67export default function AboutPage() {8  return (9    <div className="ci-prose max-w-3xl">10      <PageHeader kicker="About" title="The global index of cancer" lede="CancerIndex is a provenance-first, continuously updated, transparently sourced index of every recognized malignant disease entity — not a list of thirty common cancers." />11      <Section id="what" kicker="Scope" title="What it connects">12        <p>Taxonomy (NCIt, OncoTree, ICD), epidemiology (registries), genomics (open cohorts), variants and curated evidence (CIViC, ClinVar), therapies and regulatory status (by jurisdiction), clinical trials (ClinicalTrials.gov), and literature (PubMed) — linked through stable public identifiers and explicit match types.</p>13      </Section>14      <Section id="who" kicker="Audience" title="Who it is for">15        <p>Researchers, clinicians, analysts, journalists, patient advocates and developers who need the number <em>and</em> where it came from. The public API mirrors the site so nothing on the page is unavailable programmatically.</p>16      </Section>17      <Section id="principles" kicker="Principles" title="What it refuses to do">18        <ul>19          <li>No number without a source, a retrieval date and — when derived — a formula version.</li>20          <li>No invented, estimated or placeholder statistics. Missing data is shown as missing.</li>21          <li>No composite "worst cancer" score that hides its weights.</li>22          <li>No medical advice: CancerIndex is not a physician, does not diagnose and does not recommend treatment.</li>23          <li>No AI-generated synthesis in this phase; all text is sourced or fixed methodology.</li>24        </ul>25      </Section>26      <Section id="status" kicker="Status" title="Phase 1">27        <p>28          The taxonomy backbone is live; epidemiology, genomics, trial and literature connectors are being brought online one at a time, each after a license review. Follow progress on the <Link className="ci-link" href="/sources">source registry</Link> and read the <Link className="ci-link" href="/methodology">methodology</Link>.29        </p>30      </Section>31    </div>32  );33}34