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MAY 24, 2016

A Glimpse of Oncology’s Precision Future

Challenging Cases in Oncology: One Patient at a Time

by Gina Shaw

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When Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., flies in a patient from neighboring North Dakota on one of its private jets, that’s a pretty good sign that the patient in question is in a bad way. So it was in February 2014 when Evan Johnson was rushed in.

The senior psychology major at the University of North Dakota had been feeling progressively worse since before Christmas. What had started with fatigue and colds that he just couldn’t shake escalated to unexplained bruising and