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The other day my patient Mr. T, was having his physical and I asked him about his health habits. I asked about his exercise, and he explained to me that he did aerobic exercise three days a week for 30 minutes, doing treadmill and cross-training and bicycling, and he said something to me that was …
OK…that’s an exaggeration. But, his recent passing was the occasion of my reading is obituary in the NYTIMES, and there I discovered that he was another link-in-the-chain in the story of Gleevec, a cancer therapy breakthrough that has cured patients of a form of leukemia that was previously uniformly fatal. Tony Pawson focused his research …