New book from Joanna Stern highlights personal breast cancer journey

Today, we share a piece that is one part human and one part AI, yet entirely from the heart and entirely worth your time.

This week, The Wall Street Journal published an article by Joanna Stern, a veteran tech columnist, a mother of two, and a woman with a 39% lifetime risk of breast cancer, about the day she trusted Transpara with one of the most personal moments of her year.

It is one of the most human things we have ever read about this technology.

Joanna sat beside Dr. Laurie Margolies, chief of breast imaging at Mount Sinai's Dubin Breast Center, and watched in real time as Transpara analyzed her mammogram: an AI trained on images just like hers searched for what the human eye might miss while Dr. Margolies brought perception honed by decades of expertise to that same screen.

Together, they looked. Together, they decided.

But the imagery that stayed with us most was this:

Joanna's mother is a three-time breast cancer survivor. In 1993, a radiologist missed calcifications on her mammogram, findings that were already there, already visible, yet not discovered and acted upon. What followed was a lumpectomy and radiation that might have been prevented with today's advances and algorithms.

"It seems to me," her mother said, "this new AI technology would have paid equal attention to both images."

Today, pioneering leaders in breast imaging are using artificial intelligence to shape care that is personal, powerful, and protective.

That is why this work matters. Not because AI is remarkable, though it is, but because behind every image is a woman.

A daughter. A friend. A mother. A life that deserves every possible chance.

The article is adapted from Joanna's new book, I Am Not a Robot: My Year Using AI to Do (Almost) Everything, out May 12.

Read the piece.

Order the book.

And share it with anyone who needs reminding why what you do matters.

With warmth,
The ScreenPoint Team