Cancer's most complex decisions are often the least prepared for.
Together4Cancer Beacon gives patients a structured way to prepare before treatment discussions, follow-up visits, and other decision points.
Patients organize what they know, what they are concerned about, and what they still need to ask, then leave with a structured summary they can bring to their care team.
Cancer centers can make standalone Beacon sessions available to patients at no cost through printed cards, or license Beacon for deeper integration, continuity, and context across sessions.
Experience Beacon yourself, offer standalone sessions to patients, or explore an integrated institutional deployment.
Early direct-to-patient deployment. These data are preliminary, but the depth of engagement, repeat usage, and question volume suggest patients are using Beacon to actively prepare for decisions rather than consume information passively.
A critical preparation gap in oncology.
Cancer centers have built sophisticated systems around diagnosis, treatment delivery, navigation, and survivorship. But one part of the journey often remains unstructured: how patients prepare for the decisions and conversations that shape their care.
After diagnosis, patients are expected to absorb complex information, understand testing, weigh treatment options, coordinate logistics, and participate in decisions while still processing the diagnosis itself.
During treatment, they may also need to recognize and communicate symptoms, side effects, concerns, and changing priorities.
Patients may arrive at appointments:
- Unsure which questions still need clarification
- Unaware of testing, staging, biomarker, or molecular considerations that may be worth discussing
- Unable to clearly articulate treatment priorities or preferences
- Unsure how to describe symptoms or side effects in a way that supports the conversation
- Overwhelmed by logistical, financial, or practical concerns
- Dependent on limited visit time to organize context in real time
The result is often fragmented preparation across patients, navigators, and clinicians. Together4Cancer Beacon is designed to give patients a more structured way to prepare before the conversation begins.
Walk through a patient session, step by step.
The best way to evaluate Beacon is to see it in action. This guided walkthrough, built for clinicians and navigators, follows a fictional patient from preparation through the final structured summary.
You’ll see how Beacon adapts to the patient’s situation, surfaces topics worth discussing, and organizes everything into a summary the patient can choose to bring to their care team.
Educational only. Not medical advice.
Structured preparation before the conversation starts.
Guides patients through their diagnosis, treatment context, concerns, priorities, goals, symptoms, side effects, and upcoming decisions in clear, accessible language.
Surfaces areas that may warrant further conversation, including testing considerations, unresolved questions, treatment-related concerns, logistical barriers, and patient priorities.
Creates a concise, patient-controlled summary of clinical context, priorities, concerns, and questions for discussion. The patient decides whether, when, and with whom to share it.
How better preparation may support the care team.
Better-prepared patients
Less time spent reconstructing context during the visit
Visit efficiency, patient experience, throughput
Structured preparation before navigator engagement
Less time spent gathering and organizing concerns from scratch
Navigator capacity, caseload support, navigation utilization
Questions, concerns, and priorities surfaced earlier
More informed and focused treatment discussions
Patient experience, shared decision-making, quality measures
Symptoms, side effects, and concerns organized before the visit
Clearer communication with the care team
Patient experience, symptom communication, care coordination
These are potential mechanisms and relevant measures, not guaranteed outcomes.
Navigation context: Principal Illness Navigation services (CMS codes G0023 and G0024) have been separately reimbursable under Medicare since 2024. Beacon does not generate billing documentation or billable time; structured patient preparation may help programs make fuller use of reimbursable navigation capacity.
Built for decision readiness, not treatment recommendations.
Many patient-facing AI tools are designed primarily to answer questions or provide information.
Beacon has a different role. It helps patients prepare for the questions, decisions, and conversations that belong within oncology care.
Beacon does not recommend treatment or independently direct patients toward a particular clinical trial. Those decisions belong with the care team, within the clinical relationship and the program’s own pathways.
It supports preparation around:
The goal is not to replace clinical expertise. It is to help patients arrive better prepared to use it.
Designed to fit around existing workflows.
Cancer centers decide where Beacon is offered. Patients use it independently, on their own time, and choose what they share with their care team.
- New patient onboarding and new-diagnosis programs
- Nurse navigation workflows
- Treatment decision points
- Disease-specific service lines
- High-risk treatment pathways
- Active treatment visits focused on symptoms or side effects
- Value-based oncology initiatives
Two ways to get started.
Cancer centers can use Beacon in two ways, depending on the level of support they want to provide.
Offer free standalone Beacon sessions
Clinics request printed patient cards and place them where patients are most likely to find them. Patients scan a card, complete a Beacon session, and choose whether to bring their summary to the care team.
These sessions are:
- Free for patients
- Self-contained, with no memory carried across sessions
- Independent of clinic workflows
- Not automatically shared with the institution
Patients who want continuity across sessions can add it through an optional individual subscription.
Request Patient CardsExplore an institutional license
For cancer centers interested in deeper integration, an institutional license can support continuity and context across sessions as patients move through diagnosis, treatment decisions, active treatment, and follow-up, so each session can build on the last instead of starting over.
Institutional deployments can be shaped around:
- Clinic-specific workflows
- Selected patient populations
- Aggregate usage and engagement insights
Patient education remains independent.
No pharmaceutical company, hospital, sponsor, or third party determines which questions surface, which topics are raised, or what educational information a patient receives.
Sponsorship and institutional support can fund access and continuity. They do not influence content.
Clear boundaries. Patient control.
What Beacon does not do
How Beacon is designed
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Together4Cancer is a patient-focused oncology platform developed by NeedleSpotter, founded by Shruti Agarwal, PhD. It draws on experience across oncology medical affairs, commercialization, patient engagement, and cancer caregiving to help patients participate more effectively in the conversations and decisions that shape their care. Together4Cancer Beacon is its decision-readiness layer for oncology.