You are not alone.
If you’ve just been diagnosed, or you’re caring for someone who has, CaribChat walks this road with you. Grounded in the evidence your doctors know. Fluent in the resources your community has. Respectful of the wisdom your grandmothers carried.
CaribChat’s guide
General information, not medical advice. Always partner with your care team. In an emergency, call your local emergency number. Messages are processed by Cloudflare Workers AI to write each reply; CaribChat keeps no record of them.
What the study found
These figures describe CaribChat’s first version, measured in the study on medRxiv (preprint, not yet peer reviewed).
Not a diagnosis machine.
CaribChat speaks to you, not at you. It knows callaloo is iron and antioxidants. It respects your prayer circle: psycho-oncology research supports what your grandmother already knew. It acknowledges soursop leaf and ginger root with their evidence, never dismisses them, and flags the herb-drug interactions your oncologist needs to know about. It knows that transport to treatment is the biggest barrier in Caribbean cancer care, and it points you to your nearest facility. And it always says: partner with your care team.
Warm
Second-person voice, because this is your journey.
Evidence-based
Every clinical answer names its source, because your life depends on accuracy.
Caribbean
Your reality is not a US suburb. No one navigates cancer alone in the Caribbean.
We mapped what’s near you.
Real facilities in real countries: public hospitals, private clinics and cancer-society mobile units. Services, hours and costs change, so call ahead.
Trinidad
Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex, Mt. Hope (public: radiology, mammography, oncology). San Fernando General Hospital (public, southern hub). Sangre Grande Hospital (public, eastern Trinidad). Trinidad and Tobago Cancer Society mobile mammography (free; schedules at cancertt.com). Private clinics in St. Clair and Westmoorings (same-day mammography, about TT$500–800).
Tobago
Scarborough General Hospital (public), Tobago’s public screening facility.
Jamaica
University Hospital of the West Indies, Kingston (full oncology and radiation therapy). Cornwall Regional Hospital, Montego Bay (western hub). Jamaica Cancer Society, Kingston (screening, education, support).
Barbados
Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Bridgetown (national referral centre, oncology unit; screening supported through an IAEA partnership). Barbados Cancer Society (advocacy, support).
Guyana
Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, the national oncology centre and Guyana’s only radiation therapy facility.
Bahamas · Saint Lucia · Suriname
Princess Margaret Hospital, Nassau. Victoria Hospital, Castries. Academisch Ziekenhuis Paramaribo.
Eastern Caribbean
Grenada, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda and more: many patients travel between islands for treatment. Keisha helps you plan the route with your doctor and Ministry of Health.
We honor what your land grows and what your spirit holds.
Bush medicine. Prayer circles. Callaloo and dasheen. Every tradition acknowledged with its evidence status. Never dismissed. Never uncritically endorsed. Always: tell your oncologist.
Bush medicine
Soursop acetogenins show activity in laboratory studies, which is not proof they treat cancer. Ginger helps chemo nausea. Turmeric is anti-inflammatory. Herb-drug interactions exist with some chemotherapy, so your oncologist needs to know.
Evidence-taggedFaith and prayer
Research on coping with cancer supports what your church, mosque or mandir already practices: faith-based coping improves quality of life. Your pastor and your oncologist are on the same team.
SupportedDietary traditions
Callaloo for iron and folate. Dasheen for fibre. Sorrel for vitamin C. A plant-rich Caribbean plate, alongside your treatment.
NutritionCommunity caregiving
Shared transport to chemo. Faith meal trains. Lime support circles. Childcare during treatment. The Caribbean already has a community care model; Keisha helps you reach it.
CommunitySpiritual healing
Obeah, Vodou, spiritual baths: their cultural meaning is respected. There is no clinical evidence they treat cancer, so keep them alongside medical care, never instead of it.
RespectedPointing you to the guidance your doctors use.
Keisha is instructed to name the public source behind each clinical answer, such as NCCN, WHO or PAHO, and to favour guidance adapted to the resources Caribbean patients actually have. She points you to these sources; she does not replace them or your care team.
NCCN Resource Stratification
Clinical guidelines adapted for limited resources, not assuming a PET scanner down every road.
CARPHA
The Caribbean Public Health Agency: cancer surveillance across the region. carpha.org
Trinidad and Tobago Cancer Society
Free mobile mammography across Trinidad, and community education. cancertt.com
PAHO / WHO
Regional health policy, HPV vaccination targets and community health worker frameworks. paho.org
ClinicalTrials.gov
Active clinical trials, including trials with Caribbean sites. Ask your oncologist whether one fits you. clinicaltrials.gov
How CaribChat earns your trust.
Sourced
Keisha is instructed to name a source for clinical answers and to name only facilities from a published list. When she does not know, she says so. She never gives phone numbers; check the official website.
Private
No account. Your messages are sent to Cloudflare Workers AI to write each reply, and CaribChat keeps no record of them. Your conversation lives in this page and is gone when you close it.
Honest about limits
Keisha gives general information, not a diagnosis. Decisions about your care belong to you and your care team.