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Rule No. 218 is “Grand passion will take you further than good grades,” and nothing focuses a passion more than when a problem is directly connected to your own life, as in living or dying.
Meet Laura Shawver. At the age of 49 in 2006, she was diagnosed with clear cell ovarian cancer. After getting the diagnosis, she was first surprised, then shocked and finally angry to learn that doctors had no idea what treatment to recommend for her particular case. This disease did not know who it was dealing with. Shawver was not your typical patient.
First, she has a Ph.D. in pharmacology, and second, she is relentless. She knew that a molecular profile of her tumor would help in determining the options, and she was upset that she could not easily get this done for ovarian cancer, even though it was being done regularly for patients with breast, lung and colon cancers......
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