FIGHTING BIAS IN LUNG CANCER AND MEDICINE

Narjust Florez

THORACIC ONCOLOGIST, DANA-FARBER BRIGHAM CANCER CENTER; FOUNDER, FLOREZ LAB

ONE PATIENT CHANGED THE of thoracic oncologist Narjust Florez’s career: a 43-year-old nonsmoker, an active runner, wife and mother who she’d just diagnosed with lung cancer. The patient’s response? “Please don’t tell my family.”