From patient to innovator (VIDEO)
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For cancer researcher Lao Saal, the question of earlier detection is personal. As a teenager, he was diagnosed with leukaemia and spent three years in a clinical trial at the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
When he recovered, he could have chosen to leave the experience behind him. Instead, he did the opposite – immersing himself in the subject.
“I decided to talk to some of my doctors who had treated me and ask them about their research. They invited me to start working in the lab, and that's where I got hooked on the research“, Lao says.
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Catrin Jakobsson and Amanda Lindström/Lund University
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