The Future of Cancer Innovation Must Include the People Living It
CancerX is launching the first national Patient & Family Advisory Council (PFAC) designed to help shape what gets built, funded, implemented, adopted, and scaled across digital oncology.
This is not a traditional hospital PFAC. The CancerX National PFAC is a trained, compensated, and nationally representative advisory body bringing real-world oncology expertise into decision-making across startups, research, health systems, industry, investment, payers, and federal initiatives.
Where lived experience drives what scales next.
Why the CancerX National PFAC Exists
Digital health, AI, precision medicine, and new models of care are rapidly transforming oncology. Yet too often, innovation is developed without deeply integrating the perspectives of the people most affected by it: patients, carepartners, caregivers, and families.
Across the oncology ecosystem, we consistently hear the same challenge:
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Adoption stalls after pilots
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Technology increases burden instead of reducing it
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Patient perspectives are brought in too late—or not at all
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Innovation lacks real-world implementation insight
Today, there is no sustained, standardized, longitudinal infrastructure for integrating patient and caregiver expertise across the oncology digital health ecosystem.
CancerX believes innovation only succeeds if it works in real life. The CancerX National PFAC was created to help establish a structured, ongoing conduit for real-world insight and decision-making support across the oncology ecosystem before innovation scales.
Help Shape What Comes Next in Cancer Care
Join a national movement helping ensure the future of oncology innovation is informed by the people living it every day.