We invite a global, cross-discipline and cross-institutional crowd of patients, researchers, providers, pathologists, and bioinformaticians to “hackathons”, where the complex cases of individual patients are analyzed, and their best next treatment is determined.
We invite experts and facilitate conversations on the top issues that the startup is facing, e.g., funding, business model, organization, legal status, in regards to addressing cancer patient challenges in education, navigation, and community.
Current Patient Labs
For patients exploring a deep analysis of their metastatic prostate cancer
Patients and their families are overwhelmed.
An explosion of new treatment options and health data about each individual (genomics, proteomics, imaging, monitors, new biomarkers, increased frequency of sensor readings) is overwhelming oncologists and patients. Patients and their friends and family feel lost and despondent.
Impersonal Care
Batch thinking and rigorous adherence to a safe standard of care optimizes for the population but can be suboptimal for an individual patient.
Uncoordinated
Separate services are hard to integrate, and competing incentives (profit, cost, safety) are often at odds with the patient outcomes. Data is hoarded and local.
Activist patients
Some proportion of the million plus people diagnosed each year with cancer are smart and sophisticated and will leave no stone unturned to access their best treatment options, paving the way for others to follow.
Startups
Thousands of entrepreneurs are launching startups to fix the breakdowns that cancer patient experience in the health system and to disrupt the status quo.
Make a difference
Help solve the breakdowns that patients experience.
Learn
Run experiments and have conversations with diverse experts.
Connect
Meet diverse leaders and demonstrate your expertise
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Hope
Find new treatment options.
Confidence
Discover the best treatment among the options.
Education
Learn from the experts in diverse domains
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“We try to actually follow people’s baseline and look for these shifts.” – Mike Snyder “The goal is to try and understand what a healthy
“If there is something related to neuroendocrine control, that is what is of most interest.” – Amit Gattani Meeting Summary Some advanced cancer patients find
“Our vision for my research program is to use exercise as medicine for cancer.” – Kerri Winters-Stone “There is potentially a 50% reduction in prostate
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