Living plain-language evidence summaries for every common cancer question in 20 languages
For each question patients actually ask, keep a short, current, sourced answer in plain words, updated as evidence changes and available in the languages people speak.
Trustworthy information exists (NCI PDQ, Cancer Research UK, Cochrane plain summaries) but is fragmented, slow to update and mostly English. The proposal is a living library: a defined set of the several thousand most-asked questions, each with a plain answer drafted with language-model assistance from guidelines and systematic reviews, reviewed and signed by named experts, versioned, translated and re-checked on a schedule, with open licensing so clinics, platforms and assistants can embed it.
- Misinformation and unproven therapies · Patients are sold unproven treatments and frightened away from proven ones.
- Knowledge reaches practice too slowly · Knowledge diffusion is slow: it takes years for a proven result to change what most patients receive, and no one can keep up with the literature.
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