Trust architecture
How we keep ourselves honest
“We will never promise a cure. We will never hide a price.” That sentence is easy to write and easy to break — so we made breaking it a software failure, not a judgment call. Below is exactly what this site refuses to show today, and the machinery that enforces each refusal.
The commitments — and what enforces them
No doctor names until a consented physician is behind them
You will not find a named specialist profile, photo or case count anywhere on this site today.
Enforced: A release-blocking check crawls every indexed page and machine-readable surface for physician-name trust signals while the roster is unverified.
No patient reviews or testimonials
Zero reviews appear on this site — because zero verified ones exist yet. We would rather have none than write our own.
Enforced: The same fabricated-signal check blocks review snippets and review structured data sitewide.
Prices labeled for what they are
Every figure is a reference range for orientation, labeled as such on the page where it appears — never presented as a quote.
Enforced: Price structured data is gated: no machine-readable price claims are emitted while figures are unverified.
No success rates, no survival promises
No cure promises, no clinic-specific survival statistics. Population-level numbers appear only with their public source, as context.
Enforced: A promise-capability check fails the build when funnel or marketing copy asserts an outcome or capability that is not yet real.
Medical answers cite their sources
133 patient questions are answered in plain language; 112 carry an explicit citation to a public medical authority (primarily the U.S. National Cancer Institute). The rest describe our own process, which needs no external source.
Enforced: A freshness lock hashes every answer — an edit without a truthful date update fails the release.
Only live contact channels are shown
Today that means one official Telegram account. WhatsApp and email appear the day they are actually staffed — nowhere before.
Enforced: Channel mentions are gated on liveness flags in code; the confirmation step of the case-review form tells you exactly what has and hasn't been sent.
A checkable company, not a brand claim
Operated by Healthgov OÜ — EU (Estonia) registry code 16656270, verifiable in the public business registry. Hospitals are checkable against the Ministry of Health's own records.
Enforced: The registry link appears in the footer, the legal pages and the case-review form itself.
The numbers on this page compute themselves
Every figure below is read from the site’s own data at build time — not typed into this page — so it cannot quietly drift from the truth.
Fair questions
Why doesn't OncologyIstanbul™ show doctor names and photos?
Because no consented, verified physician is behind them yet. A named profile appears only when a real physician has verified credentials and has consented to be listed — until then we would rather show you nothing than a name we cannot stand behind. Most medical-tourism sites do the opposite; that is the point.
Are the prices on this site real?
They are clearly-labeled reference ranges for orientation, not verified quotes — every page that shows a figure says so. The standard we hold: a price is called verified only when it comes from an itemized partner-hospital quote. Until then, the honest use of our price pages is checking any quote you receive for missing line items.
How can I check that OncologyIstanbul™ itself is real?
The operating company is Healthgov OÜ, registered in Estonia (EU), registry code 16656270 — you can look it up in the official Estonian business registry yourself. Hospitals can be checked against the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Health's own public records; our verification guide shows exactly how. Our only live channel is the official Telegram account this site links to.
What stops this site from exaggerating?
33 automated checks run against the site before every release — they scan the rendered pages and machine-readable data for fabricated trust signals, promises that exceed current capability, dead contact channels presented as live, and uncited or silently-edited medical answers. If a claim exceeds what is actually true, the release fails.