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By Mark A. Lewis, MD, as told to Jo Cavallo  / October 10, 2020

My Inherited Condition Has Led to a Life and Career I Love

My father died of thymic cancer when I was 14, and that’s when I decided to become an oncologist. Ironically, the first patient I diagnosed with cancer was me. In 2009, during my first week of training in hematology/oncology at the Mayo Clinic, I began having severe abdominal pain, which had...