Understanding Cancer
Answers grounded in a curated, referenced knowledge base, not the open internet.
For doctors who care for adults with cancer, and for patients and carers who want to understand. For patients aged 18 and over only.
Meet Jim
Jim is the AI inside Understanding Cancer. Jim is built specially for integrative oncology.
General AI tools are not built for this field. Their answers to integrative questions are often vague, hedged or missing sources. Jim answers from a curated, referenced integrative oncology knowledge base. Clinicians review the notes in that knowledge base.
Jim is an AI system. Jim can make mistakes, so every answer shows its sources for you to check.
For practitioners Now open
Off-label drugs, supplements, nutrition and mindset: medical training rarely covers them for cancer. Understanding Cancer gives you the training in integrative cancer care you never had, in one referenced knowledge base.
Ask Jim and get referenced answers in minutes, not hours.
Jim could save you up to US$19,500 a year in unpaid research time.
That is about 195 hours a year, at US$100 an hour. Jim gives referenced answers in minutes, not hours.
Your own estimate, from the numbers above. Change them to match your practice.
Integrative care is not alternative care. It is comprehensive care, built on the best standard treatment for each patient.
Know the guideline-based standard treatment options for the patient's cancer. Jim's patient reviews start with standard care. Integrative options are then added alongside it, with interactions with chemotherapy, radiotherapy, immunotherapy and other medicines flagged.
The studies, doses, titration, monitoring and interactions behind the main repurposed drugs. Dose detail unlocks once your registration is verified.
Which supplements have evidence in cancer, and the doses used in the studies. The main interactions with chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy are flagged.
Practical, evidence-graded diet and nutrition support during and after treatment. Topics run from keeping weight on to fasting around chemotherapy.
How stress, sleep and mindset affect people with cancer. Practical ways to support them, from heart-rate variability to the psychology of coping.
Your patient's cancer, treatments, medicines and bloods are different from anyone else's.
Describe the case without names: cancer type and profile, stage, treatments so far, current medicines and supplements, and blood results. You can upload pathology reports.
Jim first writes a case summary. The summary shows red flags, a treatment timeline, results trends and any missing information.
If you want more, ask Jim for a referenced review. The review sets out options, interactions and the checks to do first, for that patient.
A full patient review in minutes, not hours.
Remission is the goal for many patients with advanced cancer. Understanding Cancer gives you the referenced knowledge to help them work towards it, alongside their oncology care.
Starting with practitioners in Asia and Europe. Understanding Cancer is for registered medical practitioners caring for patients aged 18 and over.
Jim is a web app. Use Jim in your browser, or add Jim to your home screen. There is nothing to download from an app store.
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Your founding rate stays the same for as long as your membership continues.
The price for new members rises to US$189 a month after the first 50 founding members.
If Jim helps you offer even one well-informed option to a patient who needs it, it has done its job.
Prices in US dollars.
Decision support, not a prescribing service.
For patients and carers
A cancer diagnosis brings a lot of questions. Understanding Cancer is being built to help you find clear, referenced answers, alongside your oncology care.
We're opening to practitioners first. The patient service opens next.
Coming later
Nurse practitioner, United Kingdom
Laura is a UK-based nurse practitioner. She has more than 20 years' experience in nursing, including more than 8 years as a nurse practitioner with prescribing experience. She has several years' experience in integrative oncology. Laura is clinical lead for patients and carers. She oversees the patient content and safety.
Laura offers one-hour, one-to-one consultations for patients and carers: £195 or US$260. To book, e-mail support@understandingcancer.online.
About
The Jim team are clinicians and builders who work in integrative oncology.
The knowledge base brings together curated research and our advisors' clinical experience. That experience comes from years of caring for people with cancer, especially advanced cancer, alongside their oncology care.
Reading the research is one thing. Using it with real patients is another. Understanding Cancer is built on both.
Integrative medical practitioner with a special interest in integrative oncology
MBChB (Leeds) · MRCS (Edin) · MRCGP (UK) · CCFP (Canada) · FRACGP
Dr Binjemain has practised medicine for 25 years. He worked first in surgery, emergency medicine and intensive care. He then worked in family medicine in the UK, Canada and Australia.
Since 2017 his work has centred on integrative care for people with cancer, alongside their oncology teams. He has given more than 20 talks at integrative medicine and oncology conferences in nine countries.
The knowledge base draws on his years of caring for people with cancer, especially advanced cancer.
Peer-reviewed work includes "Integrative approaches to the treatment of cancer", Cancers, 2022.
Full profile: drbinjemain.com
Clinical lead for patients
Nurse practitioner, United Kingdom
Laura has more than 20 years' experience in nursing, including more than 8 years as a nurse practitioner with prescribing experience. She has several years' experience in integrative oncology. She sees patients in clinic.
Laura is one of the trial nurses in the ReDO cancer treatment study (ACTRN12623001164684), which takes a metabolic approach to cancer alongside standard care.
Laura oversees the patient content and safety. The knowledge base also draws on her clinical experience with patients.
Questions
Understanding Cancer is an online service for integrative oncology. It gives referenced, evidence-graded answers from a curated knowledge base. It is used alongside a patient's oncology care.
Jim is the AI inside Understanding Cancer. Jim is an AI system, built specially for integrative oncology. Jim answers from a curated, referenced knowledge base, not the open internet. Jim can make mistakes, so every answer shows its sources for you to check.
Understanding Cancer is for registered medical practitioners who care for adults with cancer. A service for patients and carers opens after the practitioner launch.
Understanding Cancer is starting with practitioners in Asia and Europe.
General AI answers from the open internet. Jim answers from a curated integrative oncology knowledge base. Every answer cites its sources. Every note carries an evidence grade. When the knowledge base doesn't cover a topic, Jim says so instead of guessing. You can then arrange a consultation with an experienced clinician.
After payment you'll receive your invitation code by e-mail within a few minutes. You can start straight away. Dose and protocol detail unlock once you upload your registration certificate and we've verified it.
Dose and protocol detail unlock once you upload your registration certificate and we've verified it. Until then, you can use everything else.
No. Patients never see doses. Answers for patients are education, alongside their oncology care.
Yes. Patients and carers can book a one-hour, one-to-one consultation with Laura Homan, our clinical lead for patients. A consultation costs £195 or US$260. To book, e-mail support@understandingcancer.online.
No. Understanding Cancer is for patients aged 18 and over only. The information on this site does not apply to children or to paediatric cancer.
No. Understanding Cancer is education and decision support only. It is not a substitute for your doctor or oncologist.
Jim is a web app. You can use Jim in your browser or add Jim to your home screen. There is no app-store app.
Patient and clinical text is stored encrypted on our servers. Practitioners describe cases without names.
The patient service opens after the practitioner launch. Join the waitlist and we'll e-mail you when it opens.