bob_theslob64623h ago

Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies

https://sytse.com/cancer/

Cancer

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…

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Thanks for posting this. Happy to answer questions!
Mar 28 at 9:29pmWeb
Show threadsilentsea9019h ago
How do you deal with setbacks both in work and life, and show resilience and belief you can find a solution? Is this innate or something you worked on? Also, are there things you think are impossible for you to do?
Show threadswyx19h ago
how do you handle GitLab + Kilo + all this personal work? what system have you figured out? sorry if you've written about this somewhere, i think there's a meta lesson you have that we all can use.
Show threadDEDLINE19h ago

I have worked as an architect in HCLS technology for 10 years with Google and AWS.

Listening to you stitch all the technology and innovation together, moving from the information world to the physical world, as a patient, almost brought me to tears.

You said this will be the standard of care in 30-years, but the capability is here today. Listening to your recording is a profound moment in my life.

Thank you for sharing your journey.

Show threadsytse18h ago
Really appreciate it. I agree the capability is here today. I'm trying to get it to more people so that the learning effects and economies of scale can bring the costs down.
Show threadagumonkey17h ago

Have you run into other people doing the same ? it could be a nice new movement.

take care

Show threadlzqqqqqq17h ago

Such an inspiring read. As a bioinformatics researcher I'm awed by the depth of the deck. How do feel about the process of learning cancer biology and bioinformatics?

Ps. I work for BillionToOne oncology and we build some of the most sensitive liquid biopsy tests (https://www.northstaronc.com/). Feel free to reach out if it pique your interest!

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Show threadsytse17h ago
It wasn’t easy to learn it while dealing with the side effects of chemo. But AI helped a lot, also see the OpenAI forum talked linked on the page. Love BillionToOne, also see https://osteosarc.com/timeline/ MRD Northstar for my results with it.
Treatment Timeline - Sid Sijbrandij's Osteosarcoma Data

Interactive timeline visualization of osteosarcoma treatment history including immunotherapy, targeted therapy, radiation, procedures, and MRD measurements.