A 43-year-old with colon cancer used AI in 3 ways to help make treatment a little easier

Russ Read-Barrow was diagnosed with colon cancer. Russ Read-Barrow Russ Read-Barrow was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer after seeing blood in his poop. Using Claude, he built a chemotherapy symptom tracker to help him recall what made him feel better. Read-Barrow asks AI to create a summary of his health history for new medical providers. Russ Read-Barrow has been living with incurable stage four colon cancer for five years. The 43-year-old former PR director and father of two from the UK was diagnosed with the disease in 2021. After seeing blood in his poop around six times over the course of a few weeks, he got a colonoscopy. With multiple rounds of chemotherapy and surgeries to remove cancerous cells from his colon, liver, and later his lungs, Read-Barrow's doctors have stopped the cancer from spreading further since 2022.