Manta Cares | Global Community for Cancer Caregivers and Survivors

Your Cancer GPS™: Map, gear and guide to get you through cancer

We provide a complete self-advocacy toolkit for navigating cancer, with patent pending disease-specific maps, tools to manage your care, and expert guidance. We are survivors and oncologists helping you get the right information and resources at the right time in your experience.

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Partners for Manta Cares include LUNGevity, lung cancer community

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Podcast

The Patient from Hell™ is a bi-weekly podcast featuring patients, caregivers, oncologists, researchers and other cancer thought leaders sharing their experiences and showing that you are not alone in yours.

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Resources

Dealing with cancer is like learning another language. You often "don't know what you don't know." We are here to help with information to help you throughout your experience.

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Planner

Sometimes you just want to write things down. Our original Manta Planner© helps you stay organized and in control.

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digital platform coming this fall

For survivors, by survivors

A cancer diagnosis is like going on a treacherous hike. But you don’t have access to a map to orient you, gear to help you manage your experience, or a guide to help support you. You might not even speak the language.

We get it because we’ve
been there.

Our team is made up of cancer patients, survivors, caregivers and oncologists. We have all personally heard those devastating words "You have cancer" or have delivered them too many times. We are here to walk with you as a community who "gets it."

It's not a romantic "journey". It's not a "battle" with winners and losers. It's a crappy experience that we wish you weren't going through. But since you are, we hope we can help make it a little easier for you.

Tools and resources to manage your life

Once you know where you are and what to expect, we provide you with educational resources and self-management templates to stay organized and in control. This includes an appointment notebook, symptom tracking, medication management and tips and advice from others who have walked the "cancer path" as well.

A notebook to take notes before, during and after your Appointments

Symptom tracking

Medication management

And (human!) guides to provide added support

Sometimes even with a map and the right tools, you might still need some extra help. We have put together a hub of humans (yes, humans!) who can help you with other aspects of your experience such as fitness, nutrition, mental health, peer support, and much more.

COMING SOON

Sign up to be notified when we launch

Want access to our digital maps and resources when we launch? Sign up here and we will let you know when we open up access this Fall. We know time isn't always on our side. Want immediate access? Email molly@mantacares.com.

Testimonials

Our community Says

“Upon diagnosis, I went down the Google rabbit hole with no guidance and it was just very dark for a while. But if I had known that this planner existed, I think my trajectory and my mental health would have been different.”

— Lung Cancer survivor

“Since the [doctor] appointments are so short, maybe you only have a half hour with the doctor every three months, this really helps you prepare for every appointment and anything else that's going on in your life. I recommend everybody should have one.”

— Lung Cancer patient

“I love that this podcast has both science based educational content as well as patient stories. I share this podcast with anyone I know who has been diagnosed with cancer or cares for someone with cancer.”

— Cancer Patient

“When you are in such an overwhelming situation as having a person in your life with an illness as cancer - a tool like this that helps bring order to chaos and provide guidance is priceless!”

— Cancer caregiver

our solutions

Cancer impacts us all

We all play a role in improving the cancer experience for patients and caregivers. Whether you've walked the cancer experience as a patient, treat patients, or create tools to help patients, we want to join forces.

For Patients & Caregivers

We know how overwhelming a cancer diagnosis can be... we've been there! We've compiled the information, resources and tools to help you manage your cancer experience.

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For Providers

With unprecedented treatment options and medical information doubling every 73 days, we provide scalable, specialized education and self-management tools to improve your patients' experience.

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For Industry Partners

We can help you get the right information to patients at the right time with customized maps to deliver just-in-time resources across the entire patient experience.

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