Outlier: It’s a good club to be in

A week ago, I was giving a noon lecture to hematology and medical oncology fellows in Lubbock.My topic was “Outliers,Opportunities and Optimism.” As I was preparing, I remembered that my aunt lived with metastatic lung cancer for several years. “You’re an outlier,”her doctor had told her. In more specific terminology, an outlier refers to a living cancer patient who had an initial dia...

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