Tristan Harris
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What city is it at?
So it's been a lifesaver for you?
Yeah, yeah.
Thank you for sharing your story and coming all the way from South Carolina to do it.
Thank you so much.
Susan, you may have seen her story in People magazine.
You say AI literally saved your life, Susan.
Yes, it did.
After being smoke-free for three years and
smoking, unfortunately, way too long in my life.
I was able to quit.
My physician, family physician, suggested that I have a CT scan, so I did, and that scan showed some calcium deposits and a nodule that was odd-shaped and fuzzy.
So he asked me to have a PET scan.
The PET scan came back glowing, which is a bad thing in your lungs.
I was sent to a thoracic surgeon and he looked at it and said, I would probably give this another three to six months just out of protocol to watch it, see what happens.
But we have a new software here at the hospital and I'd like to run it through the AI software.
And simply by putting a cursor on the image from the PET scan,
gave it a prediction of eight out of 10 positive for cancer.
So we decided to do a biopsy and surgical biopsy.
And while I was under, they took that biopsy to the lab