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I Used AI to Fight My Girlfriend’s Brain Tumor

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When my girlfriend’s prolactinoma kept coming back, I lost trust in the system and started building my own, writes Andrew Rodriguez.

Amy had just turned 25, but her body seemed to be turning against her: crushing fatigue, bone density loss, and months without getting her period. We saw multiple doctors. They suggested allergies, burnout, or that maybe she just needed more sleep. Then we got her MRI results back: My girlfriend had a brain tumor. Amy has a prolactinoma, a tumor of the pituitary gland, the pea-size organ at the base of the brain that controls your hormones. In many cases, prolactinomas are benign, slow growing, and shrink with medication. The growth was caught late, gaining mass fast, and sitting in a rare…

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