Malecare Highlights

1998 First Gay/Bisexual prostate cancer patient advocacy and support program. First Male Breast Cancer advocacy and support program. Pioneers LGBT psycho-oncology.

2002 Highlights disparity of African-American men dying from prostate cancer. First African-American Prostate Cancer Research Directory. Launches prostate cancer support group network, facilitating weekly and bi-weekly meetings nationwide.

2005 Establishes National LGBT Cancer Project for cancer survivor advocacy. Launches Black Dad Connection for health and parenting skills in African American fathers.

2006 Creates CancerMatch.com, a cancer survivor dating website.

2007 Identifies advanced stage prostate cancer patients as a unique cohort. Creates psycho-social support program for advanced stage prostate cancer.

2011 Forms Global Prostate Cancer Alliance.

2013 Launches Start A Cure, a cancer research crowdfunding platform. Develops Patient Action Leaders advocacy model.

2014 Creates Twice As Many, an African American and prostate cancer advocacy program. Creates a virtual patient navigator app called Cancer Copilot. Establishes a psycho-social research unit.

2015 Invents a nuclear medicine quality assurance device, earning our first patent.

2016 Launches Cancergraph app for quality of life data collection, reviewed in The Lancet.  Leads succesful advocacy for $25million CDC Prostate Cancer budget.

2017 Becomes an NIH-funded research site with a clinical trial on post-treatment prostate cancer quality of life. One R21 and Two R01s over the next seven years. Launches Prostate Cancer Under Fire, support and education for active duty and retired Military.  Repeats succesful advocacy for second round $25 million CDC Prostate Cancer budget.

2019 Produces the first in-person national prostate cancer patient conference with an allfemale faculty.

2021 Launches the Black Prostate Cancer Alliance Produces first annual Pride and Prostate Cancer online conference.

2022 Completes Here To Hear, a two year international study on how patients learn about prostate cancer.  Earns second patent.

2023 Launches Vitawaves, the first cancer patient focused online journaling and family updating website Awarded second patent for a predictive and interactive diagnostic system; third patent pending. Integrates AI LLM into Cancer Copilot. Develops several of the first cancer patient focused GPTs with OpenAI.

2024 Begins Beta testing Cancer Academy, the first e-Learning platform for cancer patients.  Earns third patent.