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Cancer Commons
Nonprofit that helps advanced-cancer patients navigate precision-oncology options and trials, free of charge.
Overview
Cancer Commons, a nonprofit based in Mountain View, California, helps patients with advanced cancer navigate precision oncology options and trials free of charge. It offers personalised treatment-option analysis, trial matching and access to an expert network for patients with limited options, and Navexio is linked as a related company. OnCo connects it to AI trial matching and clinical decision support, to bottlenecks on patient navigation, misinformation, data silos and secrecy, and to ideas such as a cancer data donor card and a live seats-available feed for trial slots. Whether a nonprofit navigation service can scale to the number of patients who need it, or whether its model has to be built into health systems, is the open question. The trial matching technology page carries the wider picture.
Location
Mountain View, CA, US
Type
consortium
Website
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
OnCo score
#309 · 22 points (0 Newsweek + 0 NCI + 22 from 11 linked objects) · ranking
Connected
11Similar pages
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- IdeaDynamic consent with usage receipts
Shares AI trial matching & clinical decision support, Patients lack understanding, navigation and agency, Data silos.
- IdeaPatient-held portable consent for reusing samples and data across studies
Shares Secrecy and intellectual property block collaboration, Patients lack understanding, navigation and agency, Data silos.
- IdeaA common consent and material transfer template for tumour biobanks
Shares Secrecy and intellectual property block collaboration, Data silos.
- IdeaPatients are told which trials they qualify for at every treatment decision, in writing
Shares AI trial matching & clinical decision support, Patients lack understanding, navigation and agency.
- IdeaDirect record-to-database data capture: no manual transcription, no full source verification
Shares AI trial matching & clinical decision support, Data silos.
- IdeaEnforce individual participant data sharing as a condition of publication and funding
Shares Secrecy and intellectual property block collaboration, Data silos.
- IdeaA dedicated clinic for people whose blood test says the cancer is back
Shares AI trial matching & clinical decision support, Patients lack understanding, navigation and agency.
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Software in use
The software of oncology →Commercial and regulated products that this organisation sells. Each card says what is behind it: a regulator's database, the literature, a public body's list, or only the company's own words. Listing is not endorsement, and a clearance is a regulatory fact, not a clinical one.
A non-profit that gives people with advanced cancer a scientist to work their case and a route to expert opinions, free at the point of use.
Cancer CommonsPaper 2022
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