A conversational YouTube video (Dec 17, 2024) led by Robert Whitfield MD and other clinicians exploring a person-centered approach to cancer care and how AI can assist clinicians. Speakers emphasize treating the patient and their environment (the "terrain") to prevent cancer hallmarks from progressing, and describe AI as a practical aid to analyze complex, large-scale clinical data—providing overviews or drafts that clinicians can refine. The dialogue also stresses breaking large clinical problems into smaller, tractable pieces.
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So instead of focusing and treating cancer, we focus on treating the person to make them and their environment as inhospitable as possible to those hallmarks taking off. And so that's where, even where I look at your world, you coming in as the expert that you are, helps remove some of the obstacles or helps address some of the obstacles that actually may be driving forces to some of those hallmarks. That really helps my patients when they've kind of addressed all these other entry points. You have one that unfortunately, more. More is probably, you know, than people are even aware of, might face that need to have that particular thing addressed in their own improvement in their own terrain to have much better outcomes over time.
Yeah, I get asked routinely about, you know, the. Is AI good or bad? And, you know, what are we going to do with testing? And I don't, I don't want anybody to perceive this the wrong way, but the way I look at it for, for medicine, just like Dr. Nate, Dr. Winters just describes it as very complex, like there's too much data for her and I to understand. So we need as much help understanding that to be able to provide a solution to whatever problem, you know, we're faced with. So I don't ever, like, look the gift horse in the mouth. Like, if it's going to help analyze large amounts of data to provide a overview, maybe a specific answer, maybe just give us the, the, you know, rough draft, so to speak, of what's going on. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's totally fine because, you know, I, I had a lot of mentors, but I have this axiom. I don't know if honestly I came up with it or somebody else told me, but, you know, if you have a huge problem, obviously, like you are just describing, you have to break it up into a series of smaller ones to attack and make progress. If you don't, it becomes an insurmountable, you know, quest. And so when you start knocking off parts of it or taking advantage where, oh, I can help here.
