Future of Cancer Care Today (FCCT) is a free, PhD-led service that helps patients and families map emerging diagnostic and treatment options beyond standard protocols. It provides a non-clinical information and decision-support layer - creating playbooks, curated resources, and question guides so patients can enter clinical conversations with a fuller picture. FCCT does not diagnose, prescribe, or direct treatment; materials can be AI-assisted and are intended to be reviewed with treating clinicians. All care decisions remain between patients and their doctors, and FCCT’s supplier listings are informational, not endorsements.
The resource organizes vetted suppliers across categories that matter when standard care is exhausted: tissue preservation (patient-orderable banks like SpeciCare and StoreMyTumor), tumor molecular profiling (physician-ordered and patient-accessible labs such as Tempus, Foundation Medicine, Caris, BostonGene, Valius), functional drug testing and organoid/ex vivo screens (Travera, Kiyatec, First Ascent, Sagemedic, KYAN), liquid biopsy and MRD monitoring (Adaptive, Guardant, Natera, LabCorp, Quest, Personalis), immune profiling, molecular imaging/theranostics (Johns Hopkins, Royal Marsden, radioligand centers), and cancer vaccines (peptide and neoantigen programs via Jaime Leandro Foundation, Invoke Bio, Moderna, BioNTech, Elicio). Listings note ordering pathways (physician-ordered, patient-orderable, trial-only, expanded access) and include specialized options such as CSF-based testing for brain and leptomeningeal disease.
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