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LAOP 2021 · No. 26
Ed Kim
They failed therapy. They failed chemotherapy. No, they didn't fail anything. Chemotherapy failed that person.
Ed Kim
Dr. Ed Kim, physician-in-chief at City of Hope Orange County, challenges the language of cancer care: patients don't fail chemotherapy; chemotherapy fails them. Three people with lung cancer can look identical under a microscope and still have entirely different diseases. Having written hundreds of clinical trials, he is working to cut eligibility criteria, which number 37 at the median, so trials reflect real patients. He went into medicine after losing his 12-year-old brother when he was 14.
Read the Forbes columnTake the Conviction Diagnostic. In three minutes, see where you've traded who you are for who the room wanted, and exactly where to begin reclaiming it.
His story starts where reinvention did: a family that left everything behind for a new country and refused to call it loss. Cuban Roots →
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