Quotes by Patrick Soon-Shiong - Page 1

You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Cancer
Inherit
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The pancreas is by far the most complex organ in the body.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Body
Organs
Pancreas
Complex
Organ
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I want to do transformational work to actually fix the world.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Want
World
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Patterns
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I like to look for patterns, in science and life. It’s what I do.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Looks
Patterns
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I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It’s basically a mini country unto itself.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Country
Melting
Thinking
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I think of L.A. as truly the melting pot. It's basically a mini-country unto itself.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Melting
Melting Pot
Basically
Itself
Truly
Unto
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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.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Awake
I Can
Thinking
Love Me Day
Drives
Every Day
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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.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Affordable
Affordable Care Act
Care
Disaster
Foundation
Way
Foundations
Implemented
Intent
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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 / Surgeon
Cancer
Disease
Epidemics
Thinking
Chronic
Epidemic
Fact
In Fact
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I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Medical
Doctors
Obligation
Patient
Real
Trying
Bedside
Doctor
Usable
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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.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Technology
Better Place
Blessed
Ideas
Resources
Technology World Better
Physician
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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-Shiong / Surgeon
Appropriate
Cancer
Diagnosis
Drug
Long
Unconscionable
Patients
Treat
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We need to and must protect privacy. But I think that people will be willing and even eager to share medical information about themselves for the greater good of mankind.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Medical
Greater Good
Mankind
Needs
People
Privacy
Thinking
Good Must People
Eager
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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.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Sports
Basketball
Football
Passionate
Love Sports Football
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My commitment is to Los Angeles, so whatever helps this continue to be a great city, that's what I would be focused to do, and the Dodgers are certainly iconic to Los Angeles.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Dodgers
Focused
Iconic
Los Angeles
Angeles
Great City
Los
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There is no right or wrong way of giving. People in Los Angeles have made major contributions in different ways to the city: Eli Broad to art. David Geffen to hospitals. I'm not judgmental.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Different Ways
Hospitals
Judgmental
Los Angeles
Wrong Way
Angeles
David
Broad
Contributions
Los
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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.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Cancer
Cells
Nasa
Phases
Proliferation
Realised
Stem
Fundamental
Phase
Programme
Stem Cells
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We know that if you just were to take the drugs that you were supposed to take for diabetes or hypertension, just take it, as opposed to not take it, we could save $7,000, $3,000 per patient per year.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Diabetes
Patient
Per
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Yes, iD is a machine vision and sensor browser for the physical world. That's what we have been working on with Coca-Cola, Verizon, Bank of America and Disney to launch content when an image is recognised.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
America
Coca Cola
Vision
Bank
Been
Content
Browser
Disney
Working
Id
Image
Launch
Machine
Physical
Physical World
Recognised
Yes
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We're really going after truly creating sustainability of a disease-free state, creating a complete system for managing cancer patients for life, so that you can manage from onset of disease all the way through.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Cancer
Creating
Disease
Manage
Sustainability
Complete
Patients
System
Truly
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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.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Building
Patient
Play
Saws
Way
Work World Way
Work World Live
Consumer
Frame
Saw
Human Being
Potential
Sees
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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.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Care
Epidemics
Health Care
Ill
Issues
Obligation
Chronic
Diseases
Epidemic
Uninsured
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Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at the club level and a little bit in college, so thats why Im a basketball fanatic.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Baseball
Basketball
Soccer
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It was really an easy decision for me to be a part of the Lakers. It's priceless. It is one of the few places where I truly get lost in the joy of the moment of that game. All of the stresses and all the responsibilities are gone.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Lakers
Priceless
Responsibilities
Stresses
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Baseball is like cricket, and I grew up in a country where they had cricket. So I understand cricket, soccer and basketball. I played basketball at the club level and a little bit in college, so that's why I'm a basketball fanatic.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Baseball
Basketball
College
Country
Cricket
Grew
Little Bit
Soccer
Little
Like
Understand
Had
Why
Played
Bit
Club
Fanatic
Where
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What we discovered, counter-intuitively, is that when you start killing a cancer cell, one of the things it does in order to survive is to spread even further. It causes itself to form new blood vessels. We've termed this 'reactionary angiogenesis.'
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Cancer
Causes
Spread
Further
Survive
Termed
To Survive
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You have in the U.S. around two million new diagnoses of cancer a year, and 13 million survivors, so you have about 10,000 patients that require analysis every day. That's about five petabytes that need to be transmitted and computed on a daily basis.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Analysis
Cancer
Day New Every Day
Basis
Daily
Daily Basis
Patients
Require
Survivors
Transmitted
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It took 23 years from Abraxane being conceived to us showing now with conclusiveness that it works in pancreatic cancer. We cannot afford as a society to wait another 23 years to make sure that the patients get the right care, at the right time, at the right place.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Cancer
Right Place
Afford
Works
Conceived
Wait
Patients
Showing
We Cannot
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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.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Cancer
Data
Mean
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I am convinced that in order for you, as a patient, to be protected, it has to be transparent, evidence-based, objective information. Not self-serving information. Not pharma-driven information. Not ad-driven information. It is transparent, objective, evidence-based information.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Convinced
Patient
Protected
Self Serving
Transparent
Objective
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You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Compliance
Diabetes
Patient
Rate
Believe Your Day
Believe Day Every Day
Crises
Hospital
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Chinese
South Africa
Uprising
White
Africa
Meant
Fired
Group
Hospital
Largest
Protesting
Trained
Treat
Volunteered
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The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.
Patrick Soon-Shiong / Surgeon
Biology
Medicine
New Knowledge
Advances
Exceeding
Figuring
Mathematicians
Molecular
Physicists
Scientists
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