Patients Turn to Reddit While AI Talks // AIDRAN

What the r/cancer posts from this week reveal is that patients under active treatment have built their own parallel infrastructure—peer support threads, shared timelines, collective anxiety management—entirely outside the AI conversation. The family member seeking hope about XELOX and liver mets ^[2], the person processing their immunotherapy result from a treatment chair ^[4]: these posts are doing something clinical systems do not do. They are holding the emotional weight of a diagnosis in real time, with other humans.

Cancer Patients Ask Reddit for Help While AI Talks to Itself

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