Developer Uses AI to Help Interpret Brother's Cancer Scans
Start here
A software developer used AI to help interpret his brother's medical records, blood work and scan reports after doctors diagnosed stage 4 lung cancer that had spread to the brain. Rather than asking the AI for a diagnosis, he asked how likely each possibility was. The AI repeatedly raised sarcoidosis, a condition that runs in his family and can mimic cancer on PET scans. Multiple biopsies later confirmed neurosarcoidosis, and the brain lesions shrank by about 75 percent after treatment, according to the developer's account.
Generated from reports · updated 56 min ago
Report timeline
Follow the reports to see the event from different sides.
- Hacker News · AIWhat I Learned Using AI When My Brother Got Sick
A software developer used AI to interpret his brother's medical records, blood work and scan reports after doctors diagnosed stage 4 lung cancer that had spread to the brain, asking how likely each possibility was rather than for a diagnosis. AI repeatedly surfaced sarcoidosis, a condition that runs in his family and can mimic cancer on PET scans. Multiple biopsies later confirmed neurosarcoidosis, and the brain lesions shrank by about 75 percent after treatment.
Heat for this event
Not enough continuous observations yet to draw a trend.