{"entity":{"id":"idea-moon-living-plain-evidence-summaries","kind":"idea","name":"Living plain-language evidence summaries for every common cancer question in 20 languages","aka":[],"tldr":"For each question patients actually ask, keep a short, current, sourced answer in plain words, updated as evidence changes and available in the languages people speak.","summary":"Trustworthy information exists (NCI PDQ, Cancer Research UK, Cochrane plain summaries) but is fragmented, slow to update and mostly English. The proposal is a living library: a defined set of the several thousand most-asked questions, each with a plain answer drafted with language-model assistance from guidelines and systematic reviews, reviewed and signed by named experts, versioned, translated and re-checked on a schedule, with open licensing so clinics, platforms and assistants can embed it.","asOf":"2026-09-08","links":[{"label":"Bottleneck evidence (Misinformation and unproven therapies): Johnson et al., Cancer misinformation and harmful information on Facebook and other social media (JNCI 2022)","url":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/djab141"}],"tags":[],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["nci","cruk"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":["b-misinformation","b-knowledge-diffusion"],"keyPapers":["paper-johnson-j-natl-cancer-inst"],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"hypothesis":"The library becomes the most-cited source in assistant answers and platform labels for cancer questions and reduces measured misinformation belief in populations exposed to it.","rationale":"Misinformation fills the vacuum left by absent, outdated or unreadable good information; the marginal cost of maintaining answers has fallen with drafting tools while expert review keeps quality.","test":"Build 1,000 questions in five languages; measure usage, citation in assistant outputs, and knowledge in surveyed patients versus controls.","maturity":"early-clinical","actor":"data","cost":"medium","horizonYears":2},"route":"/ideas/idea-moon-living-plain-evidence-summaries/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"cruk","kind":"institution","name":"Cancer Research UK","route":"/institutions/cruk/"},{"id":"nci","kind":"institution","name":"National Cancer Institute (NIH)","route":"/institutions/nci/"}],"bottleneck":[{"id":"b-knowledge-diffusion","kind":"bottleneck","name":"Knowledge reaches practice too slowly","route":"/bottlenecks/b-knowledge-diffusion/"},{"id":"b-misinformation","kind":"bottleneck","name":"Misinformation and unproven therapies","route":"/bottlenecks/b-misinformation/"}],"paper":[{"id":"paper-johnson-j-natl-cancer-inst","kind":"paper","name":"Cancer Misinformation and Harmful Information on Facebook and Other Social Media: A Brief Report","route":"/key-papers/paper-johnson-j-natl-cancer-inst/"}]}}