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Jane Perlmutter

Oct 8, 2026

11:01
Can you talk about that a little?
11:03
Right.
11:04
You know, again, different cancers are different, and PD-L1 is an indication that probably that immune therapy is likely to be helpful to you.
11:14
But many patients, not enough, and therefore they give it with chemotherapy.
11:20
If your cancer looks very aggressive, they may well say, let's start having some chemotherapy.
11:25
We could maybe drop that off later.
11:28
And PD-L1 goes from 0 to 100.

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20:40
So I think I know the answer to this, but can you just share how knowing your own PD-L1, knowing your biomarkers has helped you be a contributor to your own care plan?
10:13
So I would be curious to hear from you as a patient that's gone through kind of every bit of this spectrum How do you feel about the introduction of AI into healthcare or this kind of cancer detection space?
10:29
Well, you know, I am a... believe it or not, a really early advocate of AI.
10:36
In the 70s, I did a master's thesis in computer science, and my topic was an AI topic, which people don't realize that there was AI back even in the 50s with Turing.
10:47
I was just going to say, I think one thing that AI can do is just help... make patients aware, remind people to get them scheduled.
10:57
I think some patients and a lot of patients are actually concerned that that will depersonalize things.
11:03
But in some ways, some of these new AI chatbots are even more personal and some people recognize that.
11:11
The jury's still out, there's pros and cons, and certainly there's probably using AI to analyze mammograms is one of the furthest along.

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20:23
it's gone anyway, right? It's one of the

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