For complex cancer cases
When standard of care is not enough, LightWay takes on the hard casework. We read every report, dig into the tumor's biology, and work with you and your oncologist on the routes with real evidence behind them: drugs, trials, and vaccines, here or abroad.
Real people review every case. Every finding links back to your record. Decisions stay with you and your doctors.
What we build
The goal is for patients to get access to the best possible therapy for them, even if it is outside the standard of care. Everything begins with the tumor itself. From there, two ways we help. One or both may fit, depending on where the patient is right now.
For patients with no evidence of disease after completing treatment. We sequence the tumor, find the mutations unique to it, and prepare a personalized vaccine against them. Your own doctor confirms it fits and administers it.
For patients who need options now. We analyze your record and your tumor's biology, grade every option by the evidence, and help you reach the one that fits best: an approved treatment, a clinical trial, or a special approval pathway.
Behind both is the same platform: software that re-checks every case daily and weekly as new evidence appears, with people making every judgment. See how the system runs →
Our process
Finding and reaching the right treatment is full-time work, day and night: reading every paper, researching everything worldwide that could help, chasing the right contact for each step. No family should have to work like that. So that work is our process, and we stay on the case until treatment is moving.
Every report, scan, and note goes into one private workspace, so nothing has to be found twice.
We work through what is driving this tumor, and what that opens or closes for treatment.
Every route gets compared on the same three things: evidence, timing, and what it asks of the patient.
We handle the outreach and the paperwork until a chosen route can actually start.
New results change the plan, not just the file.
Inside the work
Every patient's biopsy and test results are unique and different from what a published paper says happened to other patients with the same data. Some of the biggest treatment decisions have very little published evidence behind them. They are based on the facts of the case and the reasoning that followed from them.
Your diagnosis, current disease state, previous treatments, response, available tissue, and test results.
Mutations, expression levels, targets, immune signals, and other findings that may open or rule out a treatment path.
Published studies, approvals, clinical trial results, and case reports, kept separate from the facts of your own case.
Reaching out to trials, talking with physicians, contacting manufacturers, working through regulatory options, and figuring out what is actually possible and how quickly.
What we do
Sometimes a medicine approved for some other disease can be useful for this specific disease, in a specific scenario that was never researched. For each patient: standard of care first, then every route beyond it, each tied to your own record.
How well approved treatments actually fit your case, and what they leave uncovered when the system simply tells you to "wait and watch".
Studies that genuinely fit your biology and timing, and how to approach them before an eligibility rule quietly rules you out.
We check every out-of-the-box idea against the evidence before it goes anywhere near a decision.
If a treatment is abroad, we find it, and weigh it honestly against the financial stress and personal toll that travel demands of a family.
Getting treatment access
We have to look for the right and all possible treatment options and make sure the patient is eligible for the treatment. It won't stop there. We have to find the right treatment centers, reach out to the trial providers, vaccine manufacturers and provide them the evidence needed to support the treatment. And keep following up until we get you an answer. We also help to get the off-label drugs, special access or regulatory pathways based on the record.
We prepare what a doctor needs to decide: current status, prioritized options, supporting evidence, unresolved questions, and the action each route requires.
Which studies are worth contacting, what they will ask for, and what could rule you in or out. Then the outreach itself: calls, emails, and finding the person who will actually help.
For drugs outside the usual route, we help assemble the medical rationale and supporting evidence a manufacturer needs.
Where it fits, we prepare the evidence a physician needs to request expanded access or a single-patient IND.
LightWay Hub
Every hospital and clinic keeps its own copy of the records, and patients end up collecting, organizing, and sending them again for every new treatment. The Hub keeps the whole case together and current, for you, your family, and your care team.
Disease state, recent changes, overdue follow-ups, and the next action.
Every claim links back to the report it came from.
What makes this tumor specific, what may be targetable, and what needs confirmation.
What is available now, what requires an access request, and what needs more evidence.
Biopsies, stains, trial packets, and the questions to ask at the next appointment.
Surveillance timing, milestones, trial changes, review dates, and open questions.
For the family around the patient
In most families, one person ends up taking on everything around the treatment: keeping the records together, researching trials, finding doctors, and coordinating second opinions. That becomes a second full-time job, taking nights and weekends. LightWay takes on the heavy work, while keeping you informed as the case changes and new options come up.
Don't panic. Cancer treatment is changing fast, and new options are becoming available all the time. The difficult part is often figuring out which ones may apply to you and how to actually get access to them. That is the part you can hand to us.
Your job as a patient is to keep going, stay hopeful, and focus on yourself. We will take on the work of finding and pursuing the paths that may be available.
Why LightWay exists
When standard of care is not enough, the searching lands on the family: reading the papers, chasing the right experts, keeping the records together, and fighting for access. That takes medical knowledge, a network, financial resources, focus, and patience. Most families will not have all five, and they should not need to.
We lived this once, end to end, and turned that work into a system. With LightWay, you get every treatment option found and checked against your own record, the access work prepared before it is needed, and the whole case in one place for you and your doctors.
The family takes care of the patient. LightWay carries the rest, so this help can reach every patient.