A 43-year-old with colon cancer used AI in 3 ways to help make treatment a little easier

Business Insider | 13-09-2026 12:10pm |

Russ Read-Barrow, a 43-year-old former PR director from the UK, was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer in 2021 after noticing blood in his stool. He has undergone multiple rounds of chemotherapy and surgeries to remove cancerous cells from his colon, liver, and lungs. He used the AI tool Claude to build a chemotherapy symptom tracker and to generate summaries of his health history for new medical providers.

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