Patrick Soon-Shiong quotes
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“Cancer is really a slew of rare diseases. Lung cancer has 700 sub-types, breast cancer has 30,000 mutations which means that every cancer in its own right is a rare disease. Sharing data globally in this context is really important from a life-threatening perspective.”
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“I'm a physician. I've been blessed with ideas and resources to use technology to make the world a better place. That's what I would like to leave behind.”
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“I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It's basically a mini-country unto itself.”
-- Patrick Soon-ShiongSource : "Patrick Soon-Shiong on Giving and Getting by in Los Angeles". Interview with Gabriel Kahn, www.lamag.com. April 18, 2013.
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“It's unconscionable that cancer patients get the wrong diagnosis 30 percent of the time and that it takes so long to treat them with appropriate drugs for their cancer.”
-- Patrick Soon-ShiongSource : "Patrick Soon-Shiong, LA’s Richest Man, Ups The Ante On Cancer Research, City Life" by Ronald Grover, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 3, 2012.
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“The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.”
-- Patrick Soon-ShiongSource : "Meet Patrick Soon-Shiong, The LA Billionaire Reinventing Your Health Care". Interview with Howard Fineman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 1, 2013.
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“The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.”
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“I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.”
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“I was working with stem cells as part of a NASA programme. We realised that the science of stem-cell proliferation was also fundamental to cancer cells when cancer enters the phase of metastasis.”
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“I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.”
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“If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care.”
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“I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.”
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“I love doing a lot of things I'm told I can't do. I think that's what drives me and keeps me awake every day.”
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“Every patient is a consumer, and every consumer is a potential patient. What NantWorks is doing is building the world the way Da Vinci saw it, and augmenting every frame a human being sees as they work, live and play.”
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“You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.”
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“We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.”
-- Patrick Soon-Shiong
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