“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.” IfsLooksCarePoorMoralIssuesDiseaseFinancialIllObligationHealth CareLook UpEpidemics Author:Patrick Soon-Shiong
“We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.” ThinkingNeedsFactsDiseaseCancerEpidemicsHypertension Author:Patrick Soon-Shiong
“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.” MeanImportantPerspectiveTypeDiseaseCancerDataBreastsHealthcareThreateningLungsBreast CancerMutationLung CancerRare Diseases Author:Patrick Soon-Shiong
