Patrick Soon-Shiong famous quotes

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.
-- Patrick Soon-Shiong

#Cancer #Mean #Data

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.
-- Patrick Soon-Shiong

#Blessed #Technology #Ideas

I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It's basically a mini-country unto itself.
-- Patrick Soon-Shiong

#Country #Thinking #Melting

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-Shiong

#Cancer #Long #Drug

The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.
-- Patrick Soon-Shiong

#Body #Pancreas #Organs

The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
-- Patrick Soon-Shiong

#Care #Way #Foundation

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.
-- Patrick Soon-Shiong

#Basketball #Sports #Football

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.
-- Patrick Soon-Shiong

#Cancer #Cells #Fundamentals

I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
-- Patrick Soon-Shiong

#Looks #Patterns

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.
-- Patrick Soon-Shiong

#Issues #Epidemics #Looks

I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.
-- Patrick Soon-Shiong

#World #Want

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.
-- Patrick Soon-Shiong

#Thinking #Awake

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.
-- Patrick Soon-Shiong

#Play #Way #Saws

You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.
-- Patrick Soon-Shiong

#Cancer

We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
-- Patrick Soon-Shiong

#Cancer #Thinking #Epidemics