For organizations

Plain answers about cancer and clinical trials, in the hands of the people you serve

Cards on the Table is free for patients and it stays free. Cancer centers, navigator programs, patient organizations and trial sponsors can bring it to the people they serve: print for waiting rooms, a version with their own contacts built in, and more languages.

Over 150questions people ask after a diagnosis, each with a plain answer
6languages: English, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, Yorùbá, Vietnamese
Grade 4.8US reading level across the whole deck, measured September 2026

What you can get

Each is priced to your quantity, languages and setting. Tell us what you need and we will send a quote.

Print

Decks, planners and books for your waiting room

The card deck, the Taking Notes appointment planner, and the seven short books, printed in the languages your patients read.

  • Card decks for clinic rooms and support groups
  • Planners to hand out at a first appointment
  • Books matched to where someone is: just told, starting treatment, offered a trial
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Your center's version

Every "ask your team" gets a number

The same cards, with your trial office, your day-or-night line and your navigator shown beside every answer, in every language. Your posters carry a QR code that opens your version.

  • Your contacts on the cards, the books and every question page
  • Only the languages your patients need
  • The clinical answers stay the same for everyone
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Languages

The languages your community speaks

The deck is built so that a new language is a translation, not a rebuild. If the people you serve read a language we do not cover yet, we can add it for your program, and then it is there for everyone.

Talk to us about a language

Free

The clinic kit

A letter-size poster, table cards with a QR code for each book, and a one-page guide for clinicians and navigators. Print as many as you like.

Download the kit

For trial sponsors and research sites

Participants should understand what they are agreeing to, in the language they read best. The trial volume answers the questions people have when they are offered a trial, from what randomization is to who pays if something goes wrong.

What sponsors and sites can fund

Terms that keep it trustworthy

  • Sponsors never write, edit or approve the text of any card.
  • No product, drug, company or specific trial is named or promoted.
  • Every sponsored version says plainly who paid for it.
  • The public site stays free and carries no sponsor branding.

Talks and workshops

We also give talks for patient groups and community organizations, and run workshops for research coordinators, nurses and navigators on explaining trials in plain words. See the sessions.

Funders and research partners: see what we have built and what funding does next.

How it works

  1. Email us with who you serve, which languages, and roughly how many people.
  2. We agree the materials, your contact details and a price, and send a proof.
  3. We print and deliver, or switch on your version, and send the QR codes for your posters.

Questions organizations ask

Do you collect any information about our patients?

No. The site sets no cookies and has no accounts. What a reader saves stays on their own phone. We count some anonymous totals, such as how many answers were right on a quiz question, with nothing that identifies anyone.

Can we change the answers to match our practice?

Your version adds your contacts and details beside the answers. The answers themselves stay the same for everyone, which is what keeps them consistent and lets every card point people back to their own team.

Who writes the cards?

Two physicians, Oyepeju Abioye-Akintola, MD, MSc, and Meghna Mathews, MD. How the cards are written and checked is set out in our editorial policy.

Is it medical advice?

No. It is education written to help people take part in the conversation with their own team, and every card sends them back to that team.

Tell us what you need

Email info@protocolandpeople.org. Say who you serve, the languages, and roughly how many people, and we will reply with options and a quote.

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