OncologyOS
OncologyOS helps cancer patients find the right clinical trials, using just their discharge documents The problem.
Core trick
Extracts diagnosis, stage, and biomarkers from discharge documents, then matches them against structured trial eligibility criteria.
Description
OncologyOS helps cancer patients find the right clinical trials, using just their discharge documents
The problem. Every year roughly 2 million Americans (and ~20 million people worldwide) are diagnosed with cancer, and almost overnight each one is handed a life-or-death information problem they're not equipped to solve. The relevant knowledge is real but scattered and
unreadable: ~19,000 cancer clinical trials are actively recruiting in the U.S. alone, alongside thousands of approved drugs, off-label and repurposing options, and dense genomic and pathology reports — yet fewer than 1 in 20 adult cancer patients ever enrolls in a trial, and the most common reason isn't ineligibility, it's that neither the patient nor their busy oncologist ever finds the right one. Matching a single patient to the right options means cross-referencing their diagnosis, stage, biomarkers, prior therapies, and comorbidities against eligibility fine print written for specialists — work that is slow, expensive, and largely manual, so it mostly doesn't happen. The result is a brutal asymmetry: the options that could extend or save a life often exist, but the patient never learns they're there.
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