iCARE ICARE Programs
We believe cancer can be beaten by forming a team around the patient. No one patient, doctor, scientist, or hospital can do this all alone. These teams are made up of networks around the world working together to think, invent, discover, and deliver global solutions to allow doctors to save patients locally.
Patient-Driven Investigative Teams (I-Teams)
An Investigative Team (I-Team) is the triangulation of local doctors, patients, and research scientists. Upon formation, there are four objectives which is to (1) Identify, (2) Evaluate, (3) Personalize, and (4) Accelerate treatment options for the patient.
Academic Network Supporting I-Teams
With a cancer diagnosis, knowing all the therapeutic options may be essential for the best treatment decisions (Existing FDA approved drugs, diagnostics, and clinical trials; links to other valuable option resources).
Three categories of ICARE Option are:
1) Standard Of Care Options
Cancer Publications for Adult and Pediatric from cancer.gov
Adult Treatment
Pediatric Treatment
National Cancer Comprehensive Network (NCCN) Patient Resources from nccn.org
Patient Resources
2) Clinical Trial Options from clinicaltrials.gov
Search for Clinical Trials
3) Breakthrough News about emerging technology, drugs, and ideas
ICARE’s Search for Emerging Options
ICARE Breaking News
Cancer Commons Research from cancercommons.org
Cancer Commons Research
Your ICARE I-Team allows you and your doctor to participate in ICARE’s international personalized clinical research collaborations ( e.g., biobanking and virtual communications network) to navigate you through these options.
By watching the video below, presented at an international think tank, you will see how the ICARE I-Team process was applied to a single patient with melanoma.
Biobanking
Biobanking is used to create personalized living tissue models. It is a new, cutting edge technology from laboratories employed to expand, cryopreserve and recover the patient’s own tumor tissue that can be retrieved from surgery, biopsy, or circulating tumor cells. This is done in order to create a patient-specific biological drug testing program. The collection of human tissues with a variety of diseases is stored by hospitals, universities, non profit organizations and pharmaceutical companies.
For example, in the video below, the surgical tumor tissue was grafted into mice to create a patient specific “biobank” that allowed collaborations with numerous academic scientists globally.
Commercial Labs:
Champions Oncology to have surgical tissues transported and used to create PDXs or organoids personalized living tumor biobanks
Champions Oncology Website
StoreMyTumor will freeze, biobank, and distribute your tissues for a fee
StoreMyTumor Website
Clinical Trial Matching
Clinical Trial Options from clinicaltrials.gov
Search for Clinical Trials
Beyond this, donations contributed as a freedom of pursuit award would allow one to have accelerated access to technology, academic, or commercial clinical studies.
Targeted Research Donations
Numerous Events have already and will continue to happen to bring together the community, educate everyone about cancer and ICARE programs, and raise funds to serve each patient with the I-Team 10-step process –at least to the extent that ICARE and the patient can afford.
Operational Demographics:
(1) The upper echelons of science and society (Wealthy, Universities, Foundations, Industry)
(2) ICARE Community Programs: Local K-12 schools, Clubs (Rotary), Churches, Business communities
(3) Internet-crowdsourcing for finding a) new approaches to your cancer(s), b) Scientific Funding, c) patient recruitment. The use of social media is essential for execution of your I-Team programs: Facebook, ICARE.org website, your virtual I-Team network(s) and ICARE’s International Dome of Collaboration (I-DOC).