For patients and caregivers facing a cancer diagnosis
Everyone tells you to advocate for yourself. Nobody tells you how.
Beacon is a private, guided tool that brings your cancer information, questions, and priorities together so you know what matters now, what still needs clarification, and what to bring to your care team.
Your Decision Readiness Record + Care Team Brief
In three steps
Bring what you have
Reports, pathology, results, notes, and other information from your care.
Tell Beacon what’s on your mind
Your questions, concerns, and what matters to you.
Walk in with two appointment-ready documents
One for you. One for your care team.
Some of the most important questions
come before treatment starts.
- Tests get ordered, or they don't.
- Second opinions get sought, or they don't.
- Trials get matched, or they don't.
- Questions get asked, or they don't.
Every one of those depends on someone knowing it’s worth raising.
Preferably before you remember it on the drive home.
That's what the rest of this page is about: built for the person going through it, and for the person doing the driving.
You’ve been wondering if there’s something you should be asking.
There is.
Cancer care involves more decisions, more dependencies, and more time-sensitive options than 15 minutes can hold, especially when the conversation isn’t structured. And some questions have a window.
- Biomarker testing came back as a spot panel, not full sequencing. A result that could have changed the conversation was never looked for.
- A clinical trial was worth asking about before treatment started. After the first dose, eligibility changed.
- Fertility isn’t on your mind today. Once treatment begins, some options may no longer be available.
- The caregiver thinks they’ll figure out the logistics later. Then treatment starts, and “later” gets very expensive, very fast.
Once treatment starts, the decisions keep coming. So do the scans, results, side effects, and changes to the plan.
Nobody handed you a map.
You’re expected to participate in decisions without always knowing what matters, what’s still unclear, or what you should be asking before the next decision gets made.
That’s what we built Beacon for.
What it is
A decision system for cancer, built around your situation.
Not a chatbot. Not a symptom checker. Not another eighty-question list. Here is what the Together4Cancer® Beacon actually is, in three answers.
A guided, personalized decision system
Grounded in current oncology literature, it takes your reports and your worries and works out what is still open for your diagnosis and stage, including the things you didn’t know to ask, across eight decision areas. Then it turns that into two documents for your appointment: a Care Team Brief for your oncologist and a Decision Readiness Record for you.
Patients and the people beside them
Any cancer type, any stage, from the day of diagnosis through treatment. Many caregivers run it on behalf of a parent or partner: upload the reports, ask the questions, bring the documents.
Any time, as often as you need, for 90 days
The night before a visit. When a new result lands. When a treatment plan is proposed. At 2am when a question won’t wait. Unlimited questions, any number of times, and it remembers your case, so each conversation builds on the last.
Built for the person going through it, and for the person doing the driving.
What this looks like in real life
Your oncologist walks in already knowing what you came to discuss.
It’s Tuesday at 10pm. Your appointment is Wednesday at 9.
You bring Beacon the pathology report, yesterday’s labs, the treatment plan your oncologist proposed, and the questions that have been sitting in your head.
Beacon brings it all together.
It surfaces what may still need clarification. What’s worth asking now. What can wait. And what your care team needs to know before the next decision gets made.
Then it turns all of that into two appointment-ready documents:
- For you: what matters now, your prioritized questions, and the words to use when you ask them.
- For your care team: a concise brief of your clinical context, your priorities, what’s changed, and what still needs to be discussed.
You hand the Care Team Brief to the nurse before your oncologist walks in.
They can see what’s changed, what’s still unresolved, and what matters most to you today.
You don’t spend the last two minutes digging through your phone trying to remember the question you promised yourself you wouldn’t forget.
The appointment has more room for the conversation you actually came to have.
That’s what prepared looks like.
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Important: The Together4Cancer® Beacon is an educational tool. It is not a medical device, does not provide medical advice, and is not a substitute for the judgment of a licensed oncologist or care team. AI-generated content can contain errors. Always discuss any guidance from this tool with your physicians before making clinical decisions.