Talking to the Tumor is a moving memoir about a daughter who faced her father’s terminal cancer diagnosis with open eyes and, through prayer, was led to AI, genetic research, and deeper faith to help him fight for more time.

After a sudden fall leads to her father’s lung cancer diagnosis, Jennifer is thrust into a world of scans, treatment failures, medical jargon, and impossible decisions. Drawing on her background in information science, data analytics, and AI, she builds a private, patient-specific tool using DNA markers, medical records, and peer-reviewed research to ask better questions and search for overlooked options.

What follows is a deeply personal story of faith, advocacy, and love under pressure. It is the story of a father determined to keep fighting, a daughter determined to keep searching, and a family navigating the terrifying space between terminal statistics and human hope.

Blending memoir, caregiving, and the emerging world of personalized medicine, Talking to the Tumor speaks to listeners who have faced cancer, cared for someone they love, or wondered whether technology might help families make better medical decisions when time matters most.

This memoir shares one family’s experience with cancer, advocacy, and AI-assisted research. It is not a substitute for professional medical advice.

A broken sidewalk. A hidden tumor. A verdict no family is ever ready to hear.

When her father is diagnosed with aggressive lung cancer, Jennifer is forced into the terrifying world of scans, statistics, treatment failures, and fading hope. But instead of surrendering to fear, she turns to the tools she knows best: prayer, information science, data analysis, and artificial intelligence.

By building a private AI model around her father’s medical reality, she begins asking better questions, uncovering overlooked possibilities, and fighting for more time.