"How AI Saved My Life" and Built a Personal Cancer Platform

A wildfire destroyed Steve Brown's home—and accidentally saved his life.

When doctors missed his aggressive blood cancer for over a year, Steve built a swarm of AI agents that caught it in minutes and helped design his treatment. Now he's turning that N-of-1 breakthrough into CureWise for everyone.

In this episode, Steve shares how he uses 36 different AI agents with different medical specialties to analyze patient records, why he avoids RAG in favor of synthesized knowledge, and how patients can become better advocates for their own care. We dig into the future of precision medicine, AI safety guardrails, and what happens when every cancer becomes an N-of-1 case.

🔗 Get on the CureWise waitlist: https://curewise.com
Check out Steve's presentation at MedNext:    • AI Caught What Doctors Missed  

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➤ CHAPTERS
Timecode - Chapter Title
0:00 - How a Wildfire Saved Steve's Life
5:46 - The Missed Diagnosis
5:52 - Building an AI Swarm for Cancer
6:35 - AI Catches What Doctors Missed
14:11 - Why Medical Knowledge is Beyond Human Scale
19:55 - The Tool Dependency Debate
24:05 - How CureWise Fits in the AI Medical Ecosystem
26:14 - 36 AI Agents, 36 Perspectives
28:15 - "There's Always Heart Transplant"
30:03 - The Cytogenetics Report That Changed Everything
34:07 - You Get the Care You Advocate For
35:20 - AI's Role: Making Better Advocates
37:13 - Privacy vs Survival: The Data Trade-off
40:27 - Scaling Personalized Medicine
45:29 - Regulatory Barriers and Innovation
49:18 - The Stakes: 3 Million Lives
51:52 - The 40 Grams of Fat Discovery
55:19 - Why Not RAG? Synthesized vs Retrieved Knowledge
58:56 - Navigating Clinical Trials with AI
1:00:56 - What Cancer Patients Should Know About AI
1:04:08 - Getting on the CureWise Waitlist
1:04:31 - Round Robin: Healthcare in 3 Years

Article Written by: Grant Harvey
Hosted by: Corey Noles and Grant Harvey
Guest: Steve Brown
Published by: Manique Santos
Edited by: Adrian Vallinan