{"slug":"fcct-directory","tag":"fcct-directory","variants":["fcct-directory"],"description":"Institutions and companies listed in a directory of proton, particle and nuclear medicine centres.","count":49,"kinds":{"institution":10,"company":39},"related":[{"slug":"patient-first","tag":"patient-first","shared":2},{"slug":"foundation","tag":"foundation","shared":1},{"slug":"navigation","tag":"navigation","shared":1}],"records":[{"id":"new-york-proton-center","kind":"institution","name":"New York Proton Center","route":"/institutions/new-york-proton-center/","tldr":"The New York Proton Center is a free-standing proton beam therapy centre in Manhattan treating solid tumours, bookable through an oncology referral."},{"id":"excel-diagnostics-nuclear-oncology","kind":"institution","name":"Excel Diagnostics and Nuclear Oncology Center","route":"/institutions/excel-diagnostics-nuclear-oncology/","tldr":"Excel Diagnostics is a Houston nuclear medicine centre offering molecular imaging and radioligand therapies, bookable through an oncology referral."},{"id":"curanosticum","kind":"institution","name":"Curanosticum Wiesbaden-Frankfurt","route":"/institutions/curanosticum/","tldr":"Curanosticum is a nuclear medicine practice in Wiesbaden and Frankfurt led by Richard Baum, one of the pioneers of peptide receptor radionuclide therapy, offering FAPI PET and investigational radioligand therapies."},{"id":"cecurio","kind":"institution","name":"CeCurio (MVZ Tübingen oncology)","route":"/institutions/cecurio/","tldr":"CeCurio, the oncology and haematology practice of MVZ Tübingen, offers personalised peptide vaccines built with the sequencing laboratory CeGaT, with real-world survival data in glioblastoma."},{"id":"immunocine","kind":"institution","name":"Immunocine","route":"/institutions/immunocine/","tldr":"Immunocine is a Cancún clinic offering personalised dendritic cell therapy, self-paid, to patients with stage IV solid tumours who do not qualify for trials in the United States."},{"id":"houston-methodist-rna-therapeutics","kind":"institution","name":"Houston Methodist Center for RNA Therapeutics","route":"/institutions/houston-methodist-rna-therapeutics/","tldr":"Houston Methodist's Center for RNA Therapeutics, led by John Cooke, is an academic mRNA vaccine programme with cancer studies opening for enrolment."},{"id":"center-for-metabolic-oncology","kind":"institution","name":"Center for Metabolic Oncology","route":"/institutions/center-for-metabolic-oncology/","tldr":"The Center for Metabolic Oncology is a physician-led practice in Franklin, Tennessee that adds exercise, nutrition, sleep, stress and ketogenic interventions to standard cancer care, for prevention, treatment support and recovery."},{"id":"asthra-health","kind":"institution","name":"Asthra Health","route":"/institutions/asthra-health/","tldr":"Asthra Health, led by the neuro-oncologist Santosh Kesari in Santa Monica, gives outside clinical opinions on complex cancer cases with 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journey."},{"id":"future-of-cancer-care-today","kind":"company","name":"Future of Cancer Care Today (FCCT)","route":"/companies/future-of-cancer-care-today/","tldr":"Future of Cancer Care Today is a free, PhD-led service that helps cancer patients and families connect the dots when standard of care runs out: it surfaces diagnostic and treatment options for their case, finds vetted suppliers who work beyond standard protocols, and writes playbooks so families walk into the next appointment with a fuller picture."},{"id":"specicare","kind":"company","name":"SpeciCare","route":"/companies/specicare/","tldr":"SpeciCare preserves a patient's living tumour tissue at biopsy or surgery so it can be used later for testing, including treatments that may not exist yet; patients can order it themselves."},{"id":"storemytumor","kind":"company","name":"StoreMyTumor","route":"/companies/storemytumor/","tldr":"StoreMyTumor, operating since 2011, preserves patients' living tumour tissue in the United States and Europe for personalised treatments and testing later on."},{"id":"belay-diagnostics","kind":"company","name":"Belay Diagnostics","route":"/companies/belay-diagnostics/","tldr":"Belay Diagnostics reads tumour DNA from cerebrospinal fluid, giving brain and spinal cord tumours a liquid biopsy when a tissue biopsy is risky or impossible, and telling true progression from treatment effects on scans."},{"id":"cnside-diagnostics","kind":"company","name":"CNSide Diagnostics","route":"/companies/cnside-diagnostics/","tldr":"CNSide captures tumour cells from cerebrospinal fluid to diagnose and track leptomeningeal disease, cancer spread to the linings of the brain and spine that conventional cytology often misses."},{"id":"rgcc-international","kind":"company","name":"RGCC International","route":"/companies/rgcc-international/","tldr":"RGCC offers blood tests that isolate circulating tumour cells and profile them to guide treatment choices and to track disease over time, sold worldwide to patients as well as physicians."},{"id":"navignostics","kind":"company","name":"Navignostics","route":"/companies/navignostics/","tldr":"Navignostics maps dozens of proteins at single-cell resolution across one tumour section, showing which cells sit next to which immune cells, to guide personalised treatment."},{"id":"cegat","kind":"company","name":"CeGaT","route":"/companies/cegat/","tldr":"CeGaT, a Tübingen genetics laboratory, sequences tumour and normal DNA side by side and identifies the patient-specific neoantigens that personalised vaccines are built on."},{"id":"oncodna","kind":"company","name":"OncoDNA","route":"/companies/oncodna/","tldr":"OncoDNA is a Belgian precision oncology company offering tumour genomic and theranostic profiling to physicians, with a mission to help providers, biopharma and patients act on molecular data."},{"id":"hartwig-medical-foundation","kind":"company","name":"Hartwig Medical 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range of approved drugs, including immunotherapies, and measures within days which ones the cells respond to."},{"id":"first-ascent-biomedical","kind":"company","name":"First Ascent Biomedical","route":"/companies/first-ascent-biomedical/","tldr":"First Ascent Biomedical grows a patient's cancer cells and tests more than 150 approved drugs against them to find the right drug for the right patient at the right time."},{"id":"kiyatec","kind":"company","name":"Kiyatec","route":"/companies/kiyatec/","tldr":"Kiyatec grows a patient's tumour cells in 3D culture and tests drugs on them, with a focus on ovarian, breast, glioblastoma and rare tumours."},{"id":"cure-first","kind":"company","name":"Cure-First","route":"/companies/cure-first/","tldr":"Cure-First is a nonprofit that grows organoids from a patient's tumour and screens them against dozens of anticancer drugs, and makes the results available to patients directly."},{"id":"sagemedic","kind":"company","name":"SageMedic","route":"/companies/sagemedic/","tldr":"SageMedic builds 3D microtumours from a patient's solid tumour and measures how candidate drugs and combinations kill or slow them, including for rare cancers and cancers of unknown primary."},{"id":"kyan-technologies","kind":"company","name":"KYAN Technologies","route":"/companies/kyan-technologies/","tldr":"KYAN Technologies uses a small set of live-cell experiments and its own AI to rank more than 1,500 personalised drug combinations for a patient's cancer."},{"id":"cancertain","kind":"company","name":"CanCertain","route":"/companies/cancertain/","tldr":"CanCertain grows circulating tumour cells from a blood sample in 3D culture and tests drugs on them, including immunotherapies, and accepts orders from patients as well as physicians."},{"id":"2curex","kind":"company","name":"2cureX","route":"/companies/2curex/","tldr":"2cureX's IndiTreat test grows a patient's tumour cells as microtumours and tests approved drugs on them, available through hospitals in Denmark, Germany, Sweden and the United Kingdom."},{"id":"pathfinder-oncology","kind":"company","name":"Pathfinder Oncology","route":"/companies/pathfinder-oncology/","tldr":"Pathfinder Oncology is a high-touch concierge service, led by William Hoos, that builds radically individualised treatment pathways for advanced cancer, including bespoke immune profiling."},{"id":"jaime-leandro-foundation","kind":"company","name":"Jaime Leandro Foundation","route":"/companies/jaime-leandro-foundation/","tldr":"The Jaime Leandro Foundation organises personalised peptide cancer vaccines for patients through the FDA's expanded access route when no trial is available."},{"id":"invoke-bio","kind":"company","name":"Invoke Bio","route":"/companies/invoke-bio/","tldr":"Invoke Bio designs personalised neoantigen vaccines in whatever form suits the patient, peptide, DNA or mRNA, using a prediction engine it says picks tumour targets with three times the accuracy of industry baselines."},{"id":"diakonos-oncology","kind":"company","name":"Diakonos Oncology","route":"/companies/diakonos-oncology/","tldr":"Diakonos Oncology makes dendritic cell therapies from a patient's own cells, with trials under way in glioblastoma, pancreatic cancer and melanoma."},{"id":"ubivac","kind":"company","name":"UbiVac","route":"/companies/ubivac/","tldr":"UbiVac is developing an off-the-shelf cancer vaccine aimed at proteins made from non-coding regions of the genome, with RNA sequencing to check a patient's tumour expresses the targets, and early data in head and neck cancer."},{"id":"cartx-therapeutics","kind":"company","name":"CARTx Therapeutics","route":"/companies/cartx-therapeutics/","tldr":"CARTx Therapeutics, spun out of Nationwide Children's Hospital, is developing affordable off-the-shelf CAR gamma-delta T cell therapies from healthy donors for solid tumours and blood cancers."},{"id":"picnic-health","kind":"company","name":"Picnic Health","route":"/companies/picnic-health/","tldr":"Picnic Health gathers a patient's complete medical records into one place and uses them to match the patient to clinical trials and research."},{"id":"antidote","kind":"company","name":"Antidote","route":"/companies/antidote/","tldr":"Antidote matches volunteers to clinical trials through a search that turns registry listings into plain questions, serving patients in the United Kingdom and United States."},{"id":"mytomorrows","kind":"company","name":"myTomorrows","route":"/companies/mytomorrows/","tldr":"myTomorrows helps patients and physicians find clinical trials and, when none fits, coordinates expanded access to drugs still in development, with patient navigators active in nearly fifty countries."},{"id":"klineo","kind":"company","name":"Klineo","route":"/companies/klineo/","tldr":"Klineo is a French search tool that helps patients and physicians find oncology clinical trials across Europe quickly."},{"id":"galen","kind":"company","name":"Galen","route":"/companies/galen/","tldr":"Galen is an AI personal assistant for cancer patients that helps find trials, interpret lab results, manage appointments and deal with insurance."},{"id":"opencancerai","kind":"company","name":"OpenCancerAI","route":"/companies/opencancerai/","tldr":"OpenCancerAI builds open cancer infrastructure and AI tools for patients and caregivers to reduce the information gap between them and their care teams."},{"id":"patient-advocators","kind":"company","name":"Patient Advocators","route":"/companies/patient-advocators/","tldr":"Patient Advocators is a private patient advocacy firm offering specialist referrals, treatment navigation and insurance and cost coordination for cancer and other complex conditions."},{"id":"private-health-management","kind":"company","name":"Private Health Management","route":"/companies/private-health-management/","tldr":"Private Health Management provides high-touch guidance for people with serious illness: specialist access, second opinions and care coordination."},{"id":"sagely-health","kind":"company","name":"Sagely Health","route":"/companies/sagely-health/","tldr":"Sagely Health, led by the oncologist Jason Sager, helps patients and families make sense of evolving science, trials and access pathways, starting with a free clinical trial report."},{"id":"outperform-cancer","kind":"company","name":"Outperform Cancer","route":"/companies/outperform-cancer/","tldr":"Outperform Cancer is a patient-built website and podcast that gathers peer-reviewed research on cancer vaccines, exercise, diet and other adjunctive strategies."},{"id":"epistamai-biotech","kind":"company","name":"Epistamai Biotech","route":"/companies/epistamai-biotech/","tldr":"Epistamai Biotech is a UK concierge navigation service focused on maximal diagnostics and precision therapeutics for cancer patients."},{"id":"private-medical","kind":"company","name":"Private Medical","route":"/companies/private-medical/","tldr":"Private Medical is a concierge medical practice with offices in San Francisco, Menlo Park, New York and Miami Beach that takes on complex cancer cases with attention to overlooked clinical angles."}]}