Sanjay Juneja: The Challenge of Innovation in Cancer Treatment
Sanjay Juneja, shared a post on LinkedIn:
“It’s a strange reality to be in where light years of improvement treating the unanimiously most feared disease process–is not just conceivable, but immediately ahead of you. After the honeymoon of hope comes… distress. Distress about the fact that every day month or–nauseatingly–years before a new set of insane tools in our humankind-wide repertoire are leveraged to simply ‘get us there’. In an odd way, it’s much like a boxing or martial arts match, where you take all of the talents and abilities that are, to end the position of vulnerability the soonest. You can’t throw everything on the table at first, because you don’t know how the opponent will respond. It can uncover unknown fallibitiies, it can be taken to later bait you into making mistakes, and it would bypass the importance of learning your opponent–the way they respond to certain things, whether ones that could end up hurting you, versus those that seem to get you ahead.
Lastly, it takes CONTROLLING, what you WANT to believe what will happen, and maintaining the poise and caution to ensure you get there. Any emotional driven mistake, be it over confidence, or hyper reaction and withdrawal that stung a bit its first time–ends in low likelihood of success. That.. is the distress. How do you succeed in taking what you have and what you know, as soon as effectively possible without losing the entire skill set from rushing to get there. This month, it’s been a lot of learning from other fighters. G cloud’s inaugural Cancer AI Symposium in Boston, Advancing Precision Medicine in Philly, and TempusAI colleagues in Chi town have been incredibly valuable, and hopeful. And this is what, imo, underscores the impotence of collaboration. Sharing experiences, sharing when we’ve gotten stung, sharing what’s worked–that’s collaboration. The endless tapes, of fights fought and lost or drawn, is data. Because in this fight, the opponent isn’t human, but threatens–and takes–human life, daily. I believe so strongly, if we’re not sharing the tape and sharing the experiences, what are we even doing. To get caught up, peep the pinned comment on learning everything AI-in-Oncology from A to Z.”
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