Ask HN: What can I / we do to help fight cancer?
But it infuriates me that a friends life is in someone else's hands and he has to take his doctors word for his treatment.
Long story short - what were benign tumors have started to grow again; few in the base of his skull and a few in his spine. Due to their location, they are in-operable and after months of MRI scans and tests, they've decided (yesterday) on a combined chemotherapy / breast cancer drug treatment. The doctors have said this combination is highly experimental and has had a 44% success rate over the last few years - this option was chosen over focused radiation as it appears the tumors may be spreading.
I remember reading IBM is doing great things with the Watson super computer regarding oncology - Cleveland Clinic is on the list of participants and I can't remember where he was yesterday in Virginia.
My questions are, I guess:
1 - is there anything I can do other then moral support and help with life tasks? (driving to clinic, household tasks, etc...)
2 - is folding at home still a thing? Have any results come from it yet?
3 - IF Cleveland hasn't run his tumor's DNA through Watson - is it even remotely possible for me to obtain a copy of his records and obtain access to Watson and do it myself?
4 - Is anyone working on projects along these lines I can possible contribute to? Either code or ?
5 - ???