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Manage Your Cancer
Confidently, Step by Step

We’ve built the most comprehensive and powerful platform for cancer patients, care partners, and healthcare providers. We support you with clinically validated insights, practical tools, and a supportive -community to provide the right information at the right time.

“I wish I had this when I was diagnosed.”
Jane J.,
cancer patient
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About Manta Cares

By Patients, For Patients

We are a team of people — cancer patients, survivors, care partners, oncologists, nurses, entrepreneurs, designers, and developers — who have been directly impacted by cancer.
We have built the tools and resources we wish we had.

We’ve been there. We get it. 

What We Offer

Getting Help Shouldn't Be the Fight of Your Life

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Get organized, ask the right questions, and control what you can with practical tools. Track your appointments, medications, and symptoms, and make the most of your time with the doctor.

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Know your options and make more informed decisions with our interactive Cancer Maps, supported by 100+ medical professionals and backed by world-leading oncologists.

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Access support and resources from recognized organizations, to easily find help with everything from legal counseling to mental health, financial help, and more.

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Manta Cares is free for patients and care partners. It takes just minutes to sign up.

Cancer is chaotic. We know. We’ve been there.

Our Founder and CEO, Samira Daswani shares her story and how Manta Cares came to be.

The Proof Is in the Platform

Manta Cares is a CancerX, AARP AgeTech Accelerator, and PharmStars company. Thousands of patients and caregivers trust Manta Cares for expertise and support. Here's what they have to say.

“I have been drawing a map for my patients for years…this is exactly what I needed.”

Dr. Smith
Oncologist

“Manta Cares helped me understand my options for lumpectomy, reconstruction and plastic surgery.”

Metastatic Breast Cancer Thriver

“I work in cancer and haven’t seen anything like this in 20 years!”

Sally K
Oncology Nurse
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Frequently Asked Questions

Manta Cares is a platform to support cancer patients and care partners, from diagnosis to survivorship. We provide clinically validated information, practical tools, and a community of support to help navigate the highs and lows of the cancer experience.

Manta Cares is designed for cancer patients, care partners and healthcare providers. We work across the cancer ecosystem to improve decisions and care.

We refer to friends, family, and loved ones as care partners, to illustrate a collaborative partnership, rather than solely providing care.

Our digital platform is universally accessible on any device, laptop, mobile, iPad, and desktop computer. It's available to patients and care partners for free, through the support of Manta Cares partners and investors. It takes just minutes to create an account and access resources immediately.

Yes, our digital platform, Interactive Cancer Maps, and resources are available to patients and caregivers for free. Paper planners are also available for purchase, and provided at no cost by partner organizations.

Our platform currently supports subtypes of breast cancer, and lung cancer. We're quickly expanding to support other cancers.

Manta Cares is a HIPAA-compliant platform that uses industry-leading technology and practices to protect your information. We do not need access to your medical records for you to access the platform. At times we work with partner organizations such as doctors offices, hospitals, cancer centers, life science companies, patient advocacy organizations, and foundations, communicating aggregate insights on what patients and care partners need and are experiencing. Read our privacy policy and consumer health data privacy policy.

Like the magnificent manta rays that glide with profound grace through the ocean's most turbulent waters, Manta Cares embodies the strength and resilience required for managing cancer. These gentle giants of the sea navigate powerful currents and stormy depths with unwavering dignity, their wings cutting through chaos with fluid precision and purposeful direction. In the same way, cancer patients and their families must traverse the unpredictable tides of diagnosis, treatment, and recovery—often feeling overwhelmed by forces beyond their control. Manta Cares chose this name because we believe every person facing cancer possesses that same inherent grace and resilience. Just as manta rays transform turbulent waters into pathways of strength, we're here to help you manage your cancer with confidence, support, and the knowledge that even in the deepest, most challenging currents, you have the power to move forward with beauty and purpose.

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Manta Cares is free for patients and care partners. It takes just minutes to sign up.