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Cancer Explained

How your support is put to work

Our programs

Our work is organized into focused programs so you can see exactly what a gift funds. The numbers below are counted directly from our content. We only publish impact figures we can verify; anything we cannot yet measure honestly is left off rather than estimated.

Plain-Language Cancer Library

Turning trusted cancer information into language anyone can follow.

Plain-language explainers built from authoritative sources such as the NCI, covering diagnosis, treatments, side effects, and daily life.

Plain-language articles
1,625
Glossary terms
382

Your gift funds

  • Writing and updating plain-language guides
  • Report and term explainers
  • Diagrams and printables

Cancer Questions Project

Answering the questions people actually search for.

Plain-language answers to the real questions patients and caregivers ask, each linked to its source, plus tools to build question lists for appointments.

Answered questions
444
Quiz questions
2,632

Your gift funds

  • Researching and answering common questions
  • Appointment question-builder tools
  • Ready-made question lists

Multilingual Cancer Access Program

Reaching people in the language they think in.

Spanish-language articles and a multilingual interface so more families can understand cancer information in their own language.

Interface languages
43
Spanish articles
193

Your gift funds

  • Spanish article translation and review
  • Interface localization
  • Machine-translation hand-off tooling

Cancer Literacy for Families

Helping families, kids, and caregivers understand together.

Age-appropriate explanations for children and teens, and practical, plain-language guidance for caregivers.

Kids & Teens pages
28

Your gift funds

  • Kids & Teens content at a safe reading level
  • Caregiver guides
  • Family communication tools

Cancer Care Navigation Tools

Free tools that help people prepare and find their way.

Interactive, privacy-respecting tools like the Diagnosis Navigator, doctor-visit prep, and the screening checklist that keep selections on the user's own device.

Free interactive tools
5

Your gift funds

  • Building and maintaining educational tools
  • Accessibility work
  • Keeping tools free and ad-free

Cancer Misinformation Observatory

Careful, evidence-based looks at common cancer claims.

Fact-check explainers that examine what the evidence shows about widely shared cancer claims, with clear, hedged verdicts.

Claim checks published
41

Your gift funds

  • Researching and writing claim checks
  • ClaimReview structured data
  • Corrections handling

Cancer News and Evidence Tracker

Context for cancer in the news, verified before it publishes.

Plain-language, verification-gated summaries of cancer developments, with a fail-closed pipeline that holds anything not independently verified.

Verified news summaries
581

Your gift funds

  • News verification and writing
  • The fail-closed verification pipeline
  • Weekly digest

How we count impact

Every number above is counted from our own content collections at build time, so it stays accurate as the library grows. We deliberately do not publish figures such as people reached, countries served, or downloads until we have verified analytics to back them — we would rather show fewer numbers than invented ones. See our transparency and editorial independence pages for how we are funded and governed.