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I guess experiments will get a doctor sued.
Certainly hospitals are in the business of minimizing liability while patients would prefer maximum survivability. Those are very different goals.
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How do you deal with setbacks both in work and life, and show resilience and belief you can find a solution? Is this innate or something you worked on? Also, are there things you think are impossible for you to do?
I have a stoic mindset, I try to not care about things that are outside my sphere of influence. While the cancer was unfortunate it was out of my control. Having my YCW15 batchmate step up for me during my initial set of treatments to get me Shasqi opened my eyes that I could help create and take new medicines. It was within my sphere of influence. When I reached the end of standard of care I stepped down from the CE…
And Sytse if you read this: beterschap en als dat niet helpt: sterkte. Cancer sucks.
Thanks for posting this. Happy to answer questions!
take care
When it comes to cancer, there is an awful lot of legacy thinking and "way things are done" taking lives. Starting with the so called "standard of care", which makes patient lose precious treatment windows while they wait for a possible miracle from "first-line drugs" from thirty and forty years ago which frankly are not that good. But it's hard to reform because the fraction of people who ever think about cancer as…
I'm pretty much a pessimest when it comes to fighting cancer. I think it's just one of the bugs in our genetic code that evolution didn't shake out. I say that not as a biologist or anyone who has done any work in the field. But I've seen people close to me die of cancer and it seems like the treatement is almost worse than the disease. I agree that the standard first attacks are very crude and have broad systemic si…
I get the pessimism because "curing cancer" can essentially be interpreted as "curing aging" but progress is being made.
Sounds like some lame ass tech founder bullshit if I’ll be honest. If I had cancer the last think I’d be thinking would be to make a slide deck about it. Can these robot people come back down to earth and have a genuine human experience for a chance? Not everything has to be framed in the view of a startup company or a data analysis exercise. Maybe focus on spending time with your family and friends? If they still li…
Do not go gentle into that good night
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
And if he’s successful, which hopefully now he has a much better chance of, there are all these new medical results out that are useful.
As an example, a close friend is using one of the personalized medicine companies that sytse’s “CEO of care” has invested in to diagnose a persistent debilitating condition with no specific cause.
Or to quote someone else: All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Eligibility requires history of relapse and refractory soft tissue sarcoma. Recruiting in US and Canada.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07156565?tab=researcher#...
This is wonderful but I feel bad for all the people who doesnt have the resources to go through the same. For 99.9% of the population, a diagnostic like his means a really different outcome. I know he is trying to fix this with his investments and companies, but sharing this story could be seen as "boasting"... "I went through this and I survived, while your loved ones wouldn't"
But this extra text you want can be obtained from LLM so if you require this “decoration” on top of information why not simply write yourself Chrome extension that reads page and adds that text to it at the bottom?
This will help you not feel bad.
This is the most supremely motivating post I've seen in a long time. I know what it is to be diagnosed with cancer, being rushed to surgery - it's amazing how quickly the medical-industrial complex can move once you've got a diagnosis (at least in Australia). I had a short period of contemplating terminally, because cancer claimed the life of most of my family. Thankfully, after surgery it was gone. To see Sid use hi…
You may know all of this already, and it may not be relevant to your situation at all, but in the slim hope that my experience of editing scores of Peyronies surgery videos may help nudge you in a new or helpful direction: there you have it!