Peter Yang Open-Sources /fuck-cancer, an AI Skill to Help Cancer Patients Navigate Care
Peter Yang has open-sourced /fuck-cancer, an AI skill that helps cancer patients and caregivers navigate diagnosis and treatment while advocating for themselves and loved ones. Inspired by his experience accompanying his mother through cancer, the project was reshared and recommended by creators including Lenny and Jeremy Nguyen. It is freely available for anyone to use and improve.
Confirmed
- The skill automatically creates and maintains a briefing covering patient and care-team info, up to three next steps, known facts vs. unconfirmed items, plain-language explanations of medical terms, and a changelog
- It consolidates scattered medical documents, doctor conversations, decisions and open questions, plus question lists, document summaries and insurance details
- The project stems from the need for strong self-advocacy in care: asking questions proactively and pushing doctors for biopsies and the right tests
- Patient feedback consistently highlights feeling overwhelmed by mountains of medical files, insurance paperwork and hard conversations with doctors, which the skill is designed to address
- Yang also recommended a free AI assistant by his friend @AAkerstein, grounded in trusted sources for cancer patients and caregivers
Why it matters
- Cancer care involves overwhelming, highly technical information where patients and families are at an information disadvantage; this skill applies AI to organizing medical information and supporting self-advocacy—a real-world use case
- Being open-source, the experience can be iterated by the community and may extend to caregiving for other serious illnesses
2026-08-25 ~ 2026-08-27 · 9 related posts
Primary sources
- [source] Open source /fuck-cancer skill helps patients navigate diagnosis and treatment — petergyang · 2026-08-25
- Peter Yang open-sources /fuck-cancer AI skill for patient navigation — petergyang · 2026-08-26
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