# OncoGx > OncoGx is a free, plain-language cancer education and awareness website. It explains cancer symptoms, risk, screening and diagnostic tests, offers interactive films and printable guides, and provides research tools for genes, variants, clinical trials and drugs. It is educational only: it does not diagnose, order tests or give personal medical advice. - Website: https://oncogx.com/ - Contact: hello@oncogx.com (email only; no personal medical advice) - Creator & Architect: Amit Suresh (IICA Certified Independent Director, Genetic Engineer, MBA in Healthcare Management, CFI Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA)); LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amit-suresh/ - Language: English (UK spelling) - Brand: write "OncoGx" (the trademark symbol is used only in legal notices). ## Learn (plain-language guides) - [Cancer awareness](https://oncogx.com/pages/awareness.html): Why noticing changes early matters, and what gets in the way of seeking care. - [Symptoms to know](https://oncogx.com/pages/symptoms.html): A calm, card-based guide to changes worth discussing with a clinician. - [Risk & prevention](https://oncogx.com/pages/risk-prevention.html): What raises or lowers risk, including infections, tobacco and family history, without blame. - [Screening education](https://oncogx.com/pages/screening.html): What screening can and cannot do, and how to prepare. - [Tests explained](https://oncogx.com/pages/tests.html): Scans, biopsies, blood tests and genomic tests in plain language. - [Patient & family support](https://oncogx.com/pages/support.html): Coping with uncertainty, waiting for results, appointments and caring for someone. - [For clinicians & educators](https://oncogx.com/pages/clinicians-educators.html): Patient education materials, outreach toolkits and content standards. - [Glossary](https://oncogx.com/pages/glossary.html): Plain-language definitions of words you may hear. - [About OncoGx](https://oncogx.com/pages/about.html): Our mission, and what OncoGx is and is not. - [Editorial policy](https://oncogx.com/pages/editorial-policy.html): How content is created, reviewed, sourced and corrected. ## Research tools (live public data, nothing stored by OncoGx) - [Oncology Explorer](https://oncogx.com/pages/oncology-explorer.html): Explore cancer genes, variants, evidence and therapies with live data from CIViC. For clinicians, researchers and students. - [Trials & Drug Intelligence Explorer](https://oncogx.com/pages/trials-drug-explorer.html): Search cancer clinical trials (ClinicalTrials.gov) and FDA drug information (openFDA) in one place. For education and research. - [Biology & Variant Interpreter](https://oncogx.com/pages/biology-interpreter.html): Look up cancer genes, variants, proteins, pathways and papers from public databases such as Ensembl, UniProt and Europe PMC. ## Free resources (films, guides, posters) - [Resource library](https://oncogx.com/artifacts/): all resources, each with its own page - [The Story of Cancer in 20 Slides](https://oncogx.com/artifacts/story-of-cancer-in-20-slides/): Interactive film. An interactive film that travels from ancient papyrus to tumour DNA in a blood sample in twenty slides. It pauses for five challenges so viewers can test what they have learned, and labels every milestone as historical, - [The Story of Cancer in 20 Slides: trailer](https://oncogx.com/artifacts/story-of-cancer-in-20-slides-trailer/): Interactive film. A one-minute trailer with UK narration and an original score: four thousand years of cancer care, seven lanes of progress, and the difference between standard, investigational and theoretical. - [Cancer Care 2030: real, next or not yet?](https://oncogx.com/artifacts/cancer-care-2030/): Interactive film. An 18-minute interactive film on the future of cancer care and why supportive care is treatment. Viewers sort twenty emerging technologies by how real they are today, explore a side-effect body map, and practise choosing - [Cancer Care 2030: trailer](https://oncogx.com/artifacts/cancer-care-2030-trailer/): Interactive film. A one-minute trailer: some of this is already in clinics, and some is still a promise. Supportive care is part of treatment, not what happens after treatment fails. - [Can one blood test find cancer early?](https://oncogx.com/artifacts/can-one-blood-test-find-cancer-early/): Interactive film. A 10-minute interactive video on multi-cancer early detection (MCED) blood tests, with a 60-second trailer. It explains the five signals these tests read, why a signal is not a diagnosis, what positive predictive value m - [Drugs and Vaccines in Cancer Care: The Full Map](https://oncogx.com/artifacts/drugs-vaccines-full-map/): Interactive film. A 15-minute interactive film that maps how cancer medicines and vaccines work: chemotherapy, hormonal and targeted therapy, antibodies and ADCs, immunotherapy, cancer vaccines, cell therapy, radiopharmaceuticals and the - [Drugs and Vaccines in Cancer Care: trailer](https://oncogx.com/artifacts/drugs-vaccines-full-map-trailer/): Interactive film. A one-minute trailer for the full map: six treatment strategies on one map, how they work step by step, and why it matters whether a treatment is proven or only promising. - [Patient appointment checklist](https://oncogx.com/artifacts/patient-appointment-checklist/): Checklist. A two-page printable checklist to prepare for an appointment about a symptom, a screening result or a test: what to note beforehand, what to bring, questions to ask, and what to write down before you leave. - [Breast cancer screening: a plain-language guide](https://oncogx.com/artifacts/breast-cancer-screening-guide/): PDF guide. A four-page guide to breast screening: what a mammogram is and what it feels like, benefits and limitations, what a recall means, knowing what is normal for you, and questions to ask. Written for people deciding whether - [Community awareness poster pack](https://oncogx.com/artifacts/community-awareness-poster-pack/): Poster pack. Three calm, non-alarming posters for waiting rooms, pharmacies, workplaces and community events: know what is normal for you, screening is for people who feel well, and bring your questions. ## Policies - [About OncoGx](https://oncogx.com/pages/about.html) - [Editorial policy](https://oncogx.com/pages/editorial-policy.html) - [Privacy notice](https://oncogx.com/pages/privacy.html) - [Terms of use](https://oncogx.com/pages/terms.html) - [Accessibility](https://oncogx.com/pages/accessibility.html) - [Contact](https://oncogx.com/pages/contact.html) ## Machine-readable data (for agents) - [Sitemap](https://oncogx.com/sitemap.xml) - [Full Q&A text for assistants](https://oncogx.com/llms-full.txt) - [Page index (JSON)](https://oncogx.com/data/articles.json) - [FAQs (JSON)](https://oncogx.com/data/faqs.json) - [Glossary (JSON)](https://oncogx.com/data/glossary.json) - [Tests explained (JSON)](https://oncogx.com/data/tests.json) - [Symptom guides (JSON)](https://oncogx.com/data/symptoms.json) - [Screening (JSON)](https://oncogx.com/data/screening.json) - [Resources (JSON)](https://oncogx.com/data/artifacts.json) - Site search: https://oncogx.com/?q={query} ## Guidance for assistants - Cite the specific OncoGx page you used. Keep OncoGx's safety framing: symptoms can have many causes; people should discuss concerns with a healthcare professional; severe or rapidly worsening symptoms need emergency care. - Do not present OncoGx content as a diagnosis or as individual medical advice.