About Eisana Health

Dr. Carole Spangler Vaughn, CEO and founder, has a PhD in Biophysics and an MBA. She has spent over 25 years in the life science industry, mostly working for startups, bringing novel Oncology products to market.

In 2017, she was diagnosed with Stage 2b breast cancer which means it had already advanced to her lymph nodes. While she knew about the evidence-based treatment protocols and knew she would survive, she was surprised to learn about all the side effects. She did not know that all cancer survivors are left with at least one long term problem. There are a lot of people suffering in silence. She was even more surprised to learn that some of the most devastating side effects can be prevented. 

She discovered that something as simple as cooling could prevent one of the most common side effects from chemotherapy, nerve damage in hands and feet (peripheral neuropathy), and assumed there would be good patient-centric solutions available to her. Unfortunately, she discovered the solutions were far from ideal. It was hard for her to reconcile using baggies of frozen corn to keep her hands and feet cold on the day of chemotherapy, at a global leader in cancer care. 

Because no reasonable solution exists to this significant problem, she decided to solve the problem and founded Eisana Health because unnecessary pain and suffering should never be the price of survival.