The Vanguard Cancer Foundation

About The Vanguard Cancer Foundation

Nagourney Cancer Institute, based in Long Beach, specializes in personalized cancer treatment through a technique called Functional Profiling. For over 30 years, they have analyzed living cancer cells to determine the most effective and least toxic drug regimens for individual patients, reducing guesswork in treatment selection. Their approach is more powerful than genomic testing offered by most centers, with results available in about 7 days.

Products & Services

Functional Profiling:A laboratory technique that measures how cancer cells respond to various drugs and drug combinations to identify the most effective and least toxic treatment options for individual patients.

Personalized Cancer Treatment:Customized treatment plans based on Functional Profiling results, aimed at improving survival rates by selecting drugs tailored to the patient’s specific cancer cells.

Assay-Directed Therapy:A method to guide cancer treatment by testing drugs directly on living cancer cells before administration.

Specialties

Functional Profiling Personalized Cancer Treatment Cancer Research Assay-Directed Therapy Human Tumor Primary Culture Analyses

Funding History

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#	Type	Amount Fields	Date Fields	Investors
1	RT: Grant T: - FT: Grant	A: 1000000 MR: - FA: $1 million FAN: 1000000	D: 2025-08-25 FD: 2025-08-25	1 investors

Grant Latest

2025-08-25

$1.0M

1 investor (Pro only)

Growth Metrics

+45%

Employee Growth

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3.2x

Funding Growth

Last Round

12

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10K+

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Team & Leadership

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Cancer Survivor

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Dr. Robert Nagourney

MD

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Robert Nagourney

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Dr. Nagourney

Oncologist

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John Stamos

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Jake D. Phillips

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