Skip to content
Tech News
← Back to articles

Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies

read original get GitLab Themed Mug → more articles
Why This Matters

This story highlights the importance of patient-driven innovation and personalized approaches in healthcare, especially when traditional treatments are exhausted. It underscores how entrepreneurs and tech-savvy individuals can contribute to advancing medical solutions, potentially transforming patient outcomes and industry practices. For the tech industry, it exemplifies the power of data, open access, and proactive engagement in addressing complex health challenges.

Key Takeaways

I’ve taken agency in the treatment of my bone cancer (osteosarcoma in the T5 vertebrae of the upper spine). After I’ve ran out of standard of care treatment options and there were no trials available for me I’ve started doing: maximum diagnostics, created new treatments, started doing treatments in parallel, and scaling this for others.

Elliot Hershberg wrote a great and extensive article about my cancer journey.

My cancer journey deck is embedded below, there also is a recording of an OpenAI Forum presentation. Please scroll further on this page for my data and other information.

I think the medical industry can be more patient first, see this great article by Ruxandra https://www.writingruxandrabio.com/p/the-bureaucracy-blocking-the-chance

For my data please see https://osteosarc.com/ that includes my treatment timeline and a data overview doc with 25TB of publicly readable Google Cloud buckets.

Please subscribe to my mailing list

Contact me at [email protected]