Sep 15, 2026 · 38 min · 14 segments
When the Palisades wildfire destroyed Steve Brown’s home, the displacement forced him into a new health system, where doctors discovered an aggressive blood cancer that had been missed for months. He…
Or, you know, like House MD, the old TV show, you know, it's like he was always like the super expert, but there's always like a tumor board.
And then, you know, that surfaces a lot of ideas and they debate it and they come up with a better result because five brains collaborating on a case.
I mean, and I'm really, really lucky and grateful that I was able to get this in time because if I had caught it any later, it would have been really, really bad news.
But I caught it when I was just kind of at the tail end of a window where we could actually do all the things that I did.
So it's kind of this crazy thing that the fire probably saved my life because if I hadn't had the fire, I would have still been in the same health system I was in.
I still would have, we still would have been on kind of the wrong track and, and, and looking at this, it might've been, you know, two months later before I actually got diagnosed.
But right now, we need to go deep on actually figuring this out in really real ways to help people.
And cancer is one of these great grand challenges on the planet that is – You know, ever since, you know, every president has had some version of a, you know, moonshot, we're going to go cure cancer kind of thing, you know, starting with Nixon, which led to the National Cancer Institute.
But, you know, 600,000 people are going to die in the United States this year from cancer.
Or, you know, like House MD, the old TV show, you know, it's like he was always like the super expert, but there's always like a tumor board.
And then, you know, that surfaces a lot of ideas and they debate it and they come up with a better result because five brains collaborating on a case.
I mean, and I'm really, really lucky and grateful that I was able to get this in time because if I had caught it any later, it would have been really, really bad news.
But I caught it when I was just kind of at the tail end of a window where we could actually do all the things that I did.
So it's kind of this crazy thing that the fire probably saved my life because if I hadn't had the fire, I would have still been in the same health system I was in.
I still would have, we still would have been on kind of the wrong track and, and, and looking at this, it might've been, you know, two months later before I actually got diagnosed.
But right now, we need to go deep on actually figuring this out in really real ways to help people.
And cancer is one of these great grand challenges on the planet that is – You know, ever since, you know, every president has had some version of a, you know, moonshot, we're going to go cure cancer kind of thing, you know, starting with Nixon, which led to the National Cancer Institute.
But, you know, 600,000 people are going to die in the United States this year from cancer.
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